The Psychometric Properties of the Orthogonal Cultural Identification Scale in Asian Americans

Johnson, Mona L.; Wall, Tamara L.; Guanipa, Carmen; Terry-Guyer, Linda; Velásquez, Roberto J.

doi:10.1002/j.2161-1912.2002.tb00490.x

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“…These 2 latent dietary factors are uncorrelated, which implies that a person with a high Japanese food factor score is no more likely to have a low Western food factor score than is a person with a low Japanese food factor score. This observation is consistent with the current understanding that acculturation, when measured in terms of ethnic or cultural identification, is a multidimensional construct in which persons can identify highly with multiple cultures, rather than a one-dimensional continuum in which a person's level of identification with one culture is inversely correlated with his or her identification with another culture (23). This similarity between cultural identification measures and the dietary factors detected here supports the hypothesis that dietary acculturation reflects, or is strongly associated with, more traditional measures of ethnic or cultural identification.…”

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Measuring dietary acculturation in Japanese Americans with the use of confirmatory factor analysis of food-frequency data

Pierce

Austin

Crane

et al. 2007

The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

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Background: Epidemiologic evidence suggests that dietary changes associated with acculturation to a Western diet may increase the risk of type 2 diabetes in Japanese Americans. Objective: We hypothesized that dietary acculturation patterns could be measured by confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) by using a culturally sensitive food-frequency questionnaire (FFQ). We examined the utility of the estimated factor scores by testing for associations with diabetes and 2 risk factors for diabetes-body mass index (BMI; in kg/m 2 ) and C-reactive protein (CRP). Design: By using cross-sectional data from a sample of 219 Nisei (second-generation Japanese American; mean age 70 y) and 277 Sansei (third-generation Japanese American; mean age 42 y) participants in the Japanese American Family Study, we conducted CFA on 5 items characteristic of a Japanese diet and 4 items characteristic of a Western diet. The resulting factor scores were examined for associations with diabetes by using logistic regression and for associations with BMI and CRP by using linear regression. Results: CFA confirmed the presence of Japanese and Western food factors. The Nisei had a significantly higher average factor score for the Japanese food factor and significantly lower average factor score for the Western food factor than did the Sansei. In Sansei persons, but not in Nisei persons, the Western food factor score was significantly associated with plasma CRP concentration (P ҃ 0.02), BMI (P ҃ 0.02), and diabetes (P ҃ 0.001). Conclusions: In this Japanese American sample, dietary acculturation can be estimated by using CFA on FFQ data. Future studies should investigate the effects of dietary acculturation on disease risk independent of other lifestyle factors.Am J Clin Nutr 2007;86: 496 -503.

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Measuring dietary acculturation in Japanese Americans with the use of confirmatory factor analysis of food-frequency data

Pierce

Austin

Crane

et al. 2007

The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

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“…Participants were Asian American undergraduates at a competitive university; caution should therefore be taken in extrapolating present findings to other populations of Asian youth. The distribution of acculturation scores in this sample was comparable to other samples of Asian American students (Johnson et al, 2002); however acculturation variables could relate differently to alcohol use in a broader sample. Reliance on participant reports for assessment of parental drinking limits the accuracy of these data.…”

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Psychosocial, cultural and genetic influences on alcohol use in Asian American youth.

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Objective-Environmental and cultural factors, as well as a genetic variant of the aldehyde dehydrogenase gene (the ALDH2*2 allele) have been identified as correlates of alcohol use among Asian Americans. However, concurrent examination of these variables has been rare. The present study assessed parental alcohol use, acculturation and ALDH2 gene status in relation to lifetime, current and heavy episodic drinking among Chinese and Korean American undergraduates.Method-Participants (N = 428, 51% women; 52% Chinese American, age 18-19 years) were firstyear college students in a longitudinal study of substance use initiation and progression. Data were collected via structured interview and self-report, and participants provided a blood sample for genotyping at the ALDH2 locus.Results-Gender, parental alcohol use and acculturation significantly predicted drinking behavior. However, none of the hypothesized moderating relationships were significant. In contrast with previous studies, ALDH2 gene status was not associated with alcohol use. Conclusions-Resultsindicate that although the variables examined influence alcohol use, moderating effects were not observed in the present sample of Asian American college students. Findings further suggest that the established association ALDH2 status and drinking behavior in Asians may not be evident in late adolescence. It is possible that ALDH2 status is associated with alcohol consumption only following initiation and increased drinking experience.Asian Americans Comprise the fastest-growing ethnic minority population in the United States (Varma and Siris, 1996); accordingly, understanding the etiology of substance use in this group is increasingly important. It has been noted that substance use prevention initiatives should attend to culture-specific factors influencing use among emergent ethnic minority populations (Castro and Alarcon, 2002;Unger et al., 2002). To accomplish this goal it is necessary to first identify such factors, as well as to determine how culture-specific variables give rise to crossethnic differences in substance use. As adolescence is often marked by initiation and escalation of substance use (O'Malley et al., 1998), studies of Asian American youth are important to the identification of etiologic factors specific to alcohol and other drug use in this population.

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“…In a meta-analysis of nine studies, in which the internal consistency of the SL-ASIA using the coefficient alpha procedure was reviewed, Ponterotto et al (1998) found reliability of .80. A study by Johnson et al (2002) also showed internal consistency with Cronbach's alpha at .80.…”

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Rape Myth Acceptance Among First- and Second-Generation South Asian American Women

Devdas

Rubin

2007

Sex Roles

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Differences between European American women and first-and second-generation South Asian American women in their acceptance of rape myths were investigated. The Rape Myth Acceptance Scale, the Suinn-Lew Asian Self-Identity Acculturation Scale, and a demographic questionnaire were administered to 75 participants. A oneway analysis of variance and planned comparisons analyses showed that first-generation South Asian American women had higher rape myth acceptance than second-generation South Asian American women and European American women. Second-generation South Asian American women and European American women had similar rates of acceptance of rape myths.

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The Psychometric Properties of the Orthogonal Cultural Identification Scale in Asian Americans

Cited by 29 publications

References 19 publications

Measuring dietary acculturation in Japanese Americans with the use of confirmatory factor analysis of food-frequency data

Measuring dietary acculturation in Japanese Americans with the use of confirmatory factor analysis of food-frequency data

Psychosocial, cultural and genetic influences on alcohol use in Asian American youth.

Rape Myth Acceptance Among First- and Second-Generation South Asian American Women

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