Effects of language of assessment on the measurement of acculturation: Measurement equivalence and cultural frame switching

Psychological Assessment

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 100-114

  Schwartz, Seth J ^a   Benet Martínez, Verónica ^b   Knight, George P ^c   Unger, Jennifer B ^d   Zamboanga, Byron L ^e   Rosiers, Sabrina E Des ^f   Stephens, Dionne P ^g   Huang, Shi ^a   Szapocznik, José ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e SMITH COLLEGE   (United States)

^f BARRY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acculturation; Construct validity; Cultural frame switching; Hispanics; Measurement equivalence

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONVERGENT VALIDITY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; RANDOMIZATION; SELF ESTEEM; STUDENT; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; MULTILINGUALISM; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOMETRY; PUBLICATION; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

ACCULTURATION; CULTURE; FEMALE; FLORIDA; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; PSYCHOMETRICS; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; TRANSLATIONS;

EID: 84896716570     PISSN: 10403590     EISSN: 1939134X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0034717     Document Type: Article

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