Am Indian Alsk Native Ment Health Res. 2020;27(1):86-111. doi: 10.5820/aian.2701.2020.86.
This paper reports Phase 4 of the Culture is Prevention Project where we validated the Cultural Connectedness Scale - California (CCS-CA) with a sample of 344 Indigenous adults in the San Francisco Bay Area, California. In Phase 3 of this project, the CCS-CA was modified from the original Canadian Cultural Connectedness Scale (CCS) developed by Dr. Angela Snowshoe and colleagues to be a better fit for the more multi-tribal communities in urban California. Both the CCS-CA and CCS consist of 29 items that measure culture on 3 sub-scales: identity, traditions, and spirituality. The project demonstrated a positive link between cultural connectedness and mental health/well-being using the Herth Hope Index. We report results similar to the original CCS study by Snowshoe et al., where we found the CCS-CA to be a valid and reliable strength-based instrument and to support the conclusion that culture is a social determinant of mental health/well-being for Indigenous/Native peoples.
本文报告了“文化即预防”项目的第 4 阶段，我们对加利福尼亚州旧金山湾区的 344 名土著成年人样本进行了文化关联量表-加利福尼亚州（CCS-CA）的验证。在该项目的第 3 阶段，CCS-CA 由 Dr. Angela Snowshoe 及其同事开发的原始加拿大文化关联量表（CCS）进行了修改，以更适合加利福尼亚州城市中更多的多部落社区。CCS-CA 和 CCS 均由 29 个项目组成，这些项目通过 3 个子量表来衡量文化：身份、传统和精神。该项目使用赫特希望指数（Herth Hope Index）证明了文化关联与心理健康/幸福之间的积极联系。我们报告的结果与 Snowshoe 等人的原始 CCS 研究相似，我们发现 CCS-CA 是一种有效且可靠的基于优势的工具，并支持文化是影响土著/原住民心理健康/幸福的社会决定因素的结论。
