title: Measuring Acculturation Gap Conflicts among Hispanics: Implications for Psychosocial and Academic Adjustment.
abstract: This study examined the factor structure and validity of the Acculturation Gap Conflicts Inventory (AGCI), a new instrument developed to measure the types of recurring conflicts that young people experience as part of the parent-child acculturation gap. Participants included 283 Hispanic young adults who completed the AGCI and existing measures of acculturation, family dynamics, psychosocial, and academic adjustment. Principal axis factor analysis revealed three factors with good internal consistency: Autonomy Conflicts, Conflicts over Preferred-Culture, and Dating/Being Out Late Conflicts. These factors correlated in the expected direction with acculturative stress and family dynamics variables. Autonomy Conflicts explained more than 25% of the variance in the acculturation gap conflicts items investigated, and this factor demonstrated incremental validity in predicting psychosocial and academic adjustment beyond the variance accounted for by other acculturative stress variables. The AGCI can be valuable to researchers from a variety of disciplines interested in measuring acculturation-related intergenerational conflicts among Hispanic youth that may be predictive of adjustment.
authors: Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA, USA.
authors: Tatiana
authors: T
authors: Basáñez
authors: California State University Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
authors: Jessica M
authors: JM
authors: Dennis
authors: Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA, USA.
authors: William
authors: W
authors: Crano
authors: Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA, USA.
authors: Alan
authors: A
authors: Stacy
authors: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
authors: Jennifer B
authors: JB
authors: Unger
keywords: academic behaviors; acculturation; acculturation gap; intergenerational conflicts; psychosocial adjustment