The Suinn-Lew Asian Self-Identity Acculturation Scale: Test With a Non-Student, Asian-American Sample

Abstract

Ethnic diversity is a major trend in the Unite d States with Asian Americans constituting a rapidly growing percentage of the population. Consequently, acculturation among Asian-Americans is an important issue since ethnic diversity both offers cultural richness and contributes to challenges for educational systems, public health services, and entities c oncerned with consumer practices. The S uinn-Lew Asian Self-Identity Acculturation (SL-ASIA) Scale was tested with a non-student, random sample (N = 124) comprised of Chinese-and F ilipino-Americans aged 18 and ov er who lived in San Francisco. Resulting data confirmed results of a n initial study of the SL-ASIA; the test scores resulted in acceptable reliability measures and the instrum ent contains items which are promising for a ccurate measurement of accult uration level among Asian-American populations.

Mother-infant interaction and acculturation: I. Behavioural comparisons in Japanese American and South American families

“…In the present study, both the JAAS and SAAS had high internal reliability scores (asˆ.96 and .91, respectively) and good construct validity (correlated with generation level when the generation level item was removed from the acculturation scale, rsˆ.76 and .76, ps < .001, respectively). In addition, for immigrant mothers, age at time of immigration, r(24)ˆ¡.41, p < .05, and r(28)ˆ¡.33, p < .10, and number of years mothers had lived in the US at the time of the study, r(24)ˆ.71, p < .001, and r(28)ˆ.43, p < .05, correlated with acculturation level on the JAAS and SAAS, respectively; these correlation coef cients are similar in direction and magnitude to those found in other studies (e.g., Ownbey & Horridge, 1998). Only acculturation level was screened as a covariate because acculturation level is a psychological measure which encompasses other demographic variables; in addition, number of years in the US and age at time of immigration, for example, apply only to rst-generation mothers and not to the entire sample.…”

Smoking cessation patterns and predictors among adult Californians of Korean descent

“…A scale developed by Suinn-Lew and colleagues (Suinn, Khoo, & Ahuna, 1995;Suinn, Rickard-Figeroa, Lew, & Vigil, 1987) based on samples of Asian university students and nonstudents (Ownbey & Horridge, 1998) was adapted for telephone administration in the present study (Hofstetter et al, 2004). Validity of the scale has been supported by Kim, Atkinson, and Yang (1999);Suinn, Ahuna, and Khoo (1992); Kodama and Canetto (1995); and Ownbey and Horridge (1998). Items tapped aspects of cultural preferences involving language, music, and food; self-identification; father's identification; and social linkages including ethnicity of peers and preferred associations.…”

Place Matters in Perceived Tobacco Exposure Among Korean American Young Adults: Mixed Methods Approach

“…Other studies that involved acculturation scales such as the Suinn-Lew Self-Identity Acculturation (e.g. Ownbey & Horridge, 1998) have been criticized for use of a composite score since such usage of the scale simplifies the effects of acculturation on outcome variables and also implies that acculturation is a single latent construct (Salant & Lauderdale, 2003).…”