Center for Equity Promotion, Department of Educational Methodology, Policy, and Leadership, College of Education, University of Oregon.
Department of Public Health Sciences, Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami.
Psychol Assess. 2018 Apr;30(4):459-473. doi: 10.1037/pas0000491. Epub 2017 May 15.
Acculturation refers to the extent to which an individual immigrant (or immigrant group) acquires the customs and characteristics of a new receiving society and/or retains the customs and characteristics of the person's or group's cultural heritage. Different acculturation measures are often assumed to be interchangeable, although this assumption is rarely tested empirically. The purpose of the present study was to examine the overlap between 2 commonly used measures of acculturation among individuals of Latino/Hispanic ancestry in the United States, the Acculturation Rating Scale for Mexican Americans II (ARSMA-II) and the Bicultural Involvement Questionnaire-Short Version (BIQ-S). Specifically, we examined the ways in which scores from the 2 measures relate to one another, as well as similarities versus differences in the ways they predict external variables of interest (e.g., family functioning, parenting, and youth adjustment) that acculturation is known to influence. Findings indicate distinct patterns of results for the 2 measures. For instance, though the BIQ-S focuses entirely on language use and other cultural practices, the ARSMA-II more consistently relates to language variables. Further, adolescent BIQ-S cultural heritage scores related negatively to risks for and engagement in alcohol use-supporting prior findings-whereas ARSMA-II scores were unrelated to alcohol use. Given the largely nonoverlapping set of relationships of the BIQ-S and the ARSMA-II subscale scores with measures of language dominance and conflict, measures of parenting, and measures of youth outcomes, we recommend that studies utilize both of these measures to fully appraise acculturation in this population. (PsycINFO Database Record
文化适应是指个体移民（或移民群体）在多大程度上获得新接收社会的习俗和特征，以及保留个人或群体文化遗产的习俗和特征。尽管这种假设很少在经验上得到检验，但通常假设不同的文化适应措施是可互换的。本研究的目的是检验在美国具有拉丁裔/西班牙裔血统的个体中两种常用的文化适应测量方法之间的重叠，即墨西哥裔美国人文化适应评定量表第二版（ARSMA-II）和双文化参与问卷-短版（BIQ-S）。具体而言，我们研究了这两种测量方法的得分之间相互关联的方式，以及它们在预测文化适应已知会影响的外部变量（例如家庭功能、育儿和青少年适应）方面的相似性和差异性。研究结果表明，这两种测量方法的结果存在明显的差异模式。例如，尽管 BIQ-S 完全侧重于语言使用和其他文化实践，但 ARSMA-II 更一致地与语言变量相关。此外，青少年 BIQ-S 文化遗产得分与青少年饮酒风险和参与呈负相关，而 ARSMA-II 得分与饮酒无关。鉴于 BIQ-S 和 ARSMA-II 分量表得分与语言主导和冲突、育儿措施和青少年结果措施的关系基本没有重叠，我们建议研究同时使用这两种措施来全面评估该人群的文化适应情况。（PsycINFO 数据库记录）
