Padilla, A. M. (1980). The role of cultural awareness and ethnic loyalty in acculturation. In A. M. Padilla (Ed.), Acculturation: Theory, models and some new findings (pp. 47-84). Boulder, CO: Westview.
Reports the development of a 155-item questionnaire. The items were developed to assess the awareness and loyalty components of Padilla’s acculturation model. Only the items that displayed normality and linearity of regression were included in the final instrument. The instrument is made up of two subscales with four factors each and was developed and validated on a randomly selected sample of 381 Mexican American adults from three southern California communities. Four factors were identified for both the cultural awareness and ethnic loyalty dimensions. Internal reliability estimates for the four factors were equal to or greater than .90
- Acculturating Rating Scale for Mexican Americans
- Acculturation Rating Scale for Mexican Americans-II
- Acculturation Rating Scale for Mexican Americans-Short Form
- Acculturation Scale for Southeast Asians
- Acculturation Scale for Vietnamese Adolescents
- African American Acculturation Scale
- American-International Relations Scale
- Behavioral Acculturation Scale and Value Acculturation Scale
- Bicultural Acculturation Scale
- Bidimensional Acculturation Scale for Hispanics
- Brief Acculturation Scale for Hispanics
- Chicano Adolescent Acculturation Scale
- Children's Acculturation Scalee
- Cuban Behavioral Identity Questionnaire
- Cultural Adjustment Difficulties Checklist
- Cultural Values Conflict Scale
- Cultural Life Style Inventory
- Ethnocultural Identity Behavioral Index
- Hispanic Stress Inventory
- Internal-External Ethnic Identity Measure
- LAECA Acculturation Scale
- Language Acculturation Scale for Mexican Americans
- Latino/Latina Adolescent Acculturation Scale
- Mexican-American Acculturation Scale
- Minority-Majority Relations Scale
- Multigroup Ethnic Identity Measure
- Na Mea Hawai'i Scale (Hawaiian Ways)
- Padilla's Acculturation Scale
- Psychological Acculturation Scale
- Short Acculturation Scale for Hispanics
- Short Acculturation Scale for Hispanic Youth
- Suinn-Lew Asian Self-Identity Acculturation Scale

