School of Social Work, Boston College.
College of Social Work, Ohio State University.
Cultur Divers Ethnic Minor Psychol. 2021 Oct;27(4):649-658. doi: 10.1037/cdp0000455. Epub 2021 Jul 22.
Millions of Venezuelans have left their country in search of safety and stability in the United States (U.S.) and Colombia, two countries where recent increases in anti-immigrant rhetoric and sentiment have occurred. The captures the degree to which immigrants report feeling that people from their country are unwanted/marginalized within their new receiving context. In the present study, we examine the psychometric properties of the Perceived Negative Context of Reception Scale with recent Venezuelan immigrant adolescents and adults in the U.S. and Colombia.
We conducted confirmatory factor analysis using data from the Colombia and Miami's Newest Arrivals (CAMINAR) Study, which collected data from Venezuelan adults in Bogotá, Colombia, and South Florida in October-November 2017, and the Venezolanos en Nuevos Entornos (VENE) Youth Project which surveyed Venezuelan youth living in Florida between November 2018 and July 2019.
We found that the negative context of reception evidenced strong psychometric properties among immigrants in both the U.S. and in Colombia, among adolescents and adults, and among male and female respondents. We also found that negative context of reception scores was associated with elevated scores on criterion-related factors-that is, perceived discrimination and depressive symptoms-in ways that are theoretically coherent and support measure validity.
We provide new evidence that the Perceived Negative Context of Reception scale is reliable and valid for use with Venezuelan immigrants in the U.S. and Colombia. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).
数以百万计的委内瑞拉人离开自己的国家，前往美国和哥伦比亚寻求安全和稳定，这两个国家最近出现了反移民言论和情绪的上升。该量表捕捉了移民报告的程度，即他们感觉自己在新的接收环境中不受欢迎/被边缘化。在本研究中，我们用最近从委内瑞拉移民到美国和哥伦比亚的青少年和成年人的数据来检验负面接收环境感知量表的心理测量特性。
我们使用来自哥伦比亚和迈阿密的最新到达者（CAMINAR）研究的数据进行验证性因素分析，该研究于 2017 年 10 月至 11 月在哥伦比亚的波哥大和南佛罗里达州收集了委内瑞拉成年人的数据，以及委内瑞拉在新环境中的青年（VENE）青年项目，该项目在 2018 年 11 月至 2019 年 7 月期间调查了居住在佛罗里达州的委内瑞拉青年。
我们发现，负面的接待环境在两国的移民中，包括青少年和成年人，以及男性和女性受访者中，都具有很强的心理测量特性。我们还发现，负面接待环境的得分与相关标准因素的得分升高有关，即感知到的歧视和抑郁症状，这在理论上是一致的，并支持测量的有效性。
我们提供了新的证据，表明负面接待环境感知量表在美国和哥伦比亚的委内瑞拉移民中是可靠和有效的。（PsycInfo 数据库记录（c）2021 APA，保留所有权利）。
