TY - JOUR
T1 - Acculturation among Mexican-heritage preadolescents
T2 - A latent class analysis
AU - Nieri, Tanya
AU - Lee, Chioun
AU - Kulis, Stephen
AU - Marsiglia, Flavio
N1 - Funding Information:
The data for this study were collected and analyzed with support to the Southwest Interdisciplinary Research Center (SIRC) at Arizona State University from the National Institutes of Health/National Institute on Drug Abuse (R24 DA 13937-01 and R01 DA 005629-09A2). SIRC is an Exploratory Center of Excellence funded by the National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities (P20 MD002316). The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities, or the National Institutes of Health.
PY - 2011/7
Y1 - 2011/7
N2 - This study applies advanced conceptualization and measurement to an analysis of acculturation among 1632 Mexican-heritage preadolescents. We assessed whether - and how - multiple measures combine to form a latent acculturation construct that groups individuals into classes; and determine how many and what classes (or types) of acculturation are experienced by this sample of 5th graders. Measures included attitudinal, behavioral, and linguistic acculturation, generation status, time in the US, ethnic identification, and contact with the culture of origin. The analysis identified five classes of acculturation, differing in size and characterized by specific measures of acculturation: less acculturated, moderately bicultural, strongly bicultural, highly acculturated, and marginalized. Although most youths fell into the first four classes, consonant with their exposure to American society, a small minority of youths fell into the last class. Despite substantial exposure to US culture and recent exposure to Mexican culture, these youth showed little affinity for either culture.
AB - This study applies advanced conceptualization and measurement to an analysis of acculturation among 1632 Mexican-heritage preadolescents. We assessed whether - and how - multiple measures combine to form a latent acculturation construct that groups individuals into classes; and determine how many and what classes (or types) of acculturation are experienced by this sample of 5th graders. Measures included attitudinal, behavioral, and linguistic acculturation, generation status, time in the US, ethnic identification, and contact with the culture of origin. The analysis identified five classes of acculturation, differing in size and characterized by specific measures of acculturation: less acculturated, moderately bicultural, strongly bicultural, highly acculturated, and marginalized. Although most youths fell into the first four classes, consonant with their exposure to American society, a small minority of youths fell into the last class. Despite substantial exposure to US culture and recent exposure to Mexican culture, these youth showed little affinity for either culture.
KW - Acculturation
KW - Mexican
KW - Preadolescents
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U2 - 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2011.02.005
DO - 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2011.02.005
M3 - Article
C2 - 21785519
AN - SCOPUS:79957479783
SN - 0049-089X
VL - 40
SP - 1236
EP - 1248
JO - Social Science Research
JF - Social Science Research
IS - 4
ER -