Validity of a single-item index of acculturation in Vietnamese immigrant youth.
A single-item index of acculturation towards a host culture is described. The index appears to have good construct validity as assessed in a sample of 177 young Vietnamese immigrants in Australia.
Ranieri
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Victorian Transcultural Psychiatry Unit, St. Vincent's Hospital, Fitzroy, Australia.
Klimidis
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Rosenthal
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D000069:Acculturation; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001315:Australia; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D005006:Ethnicity / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010553:Personality Development; D010555:Personality Inventory / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012945:Social Values; D014744:Vietnam / Q000208:ethnology