Acculturation Scale for Southeast Asians

Anderson, J., Moeschberger, M., Chen, Jr., M. S., Kunn, P., Wewers, M. E., & Guthrie, R. (1993). An acculturation scale for Southeast Asians. Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology, 28, 134-141.

From factor analyses of responses on 13 items obtained from 381 Cambodians, 359 Laotian, and 395 Vietnamese Ss (aged 18-89) living in the US, 2 subscales were derived: (1) Proficiency in Languages and (2) Language, Social, and Food (LSF) preferences. Inter itemm reliability of the scales was demonstrated for each of the 3 ethnic groups. Construct validity was established by demonstrating expected associations of the subscales with current age, years in the US, years of education, percentage of lifetime in the US, and age on entering the US. Multivariate analyses revealed that males tended to show higher scores for the Proficiency in Language subscale. Multivariate analyses for the LSF Preference subscale showed that both the Laotian and Vietnamese females showed higher scores in comparison to males.