The challenge of acculturation measures: what are we missing? A commentary on Thomson & Hoffman-Goetz.
The challenge of acculturation measures: what are we missing? A commentary on Thomson & Hoffman-Goetz.
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10.1016/j.socscimed.2009.07.006
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2009-10
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5.4
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Alegria, Margarita
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Alegria, Margarita
随着越来越多的移民涌入美国，人们越来越担心制定能够捕捉逐渐融入文化过程的措施；然而，在衡量什么以及如何衡量这一过程方面，各方尚未达成共识。文化适应(即，定义为采纳美国文化规范、价值观和生活方式的多维过程；见Lara，Gumbera，Kahramanian，Morales，&Bautista，2005)和文化适应(即，保留当地文化价值观、规范或生活方式)，被假设与不同种族群体，如亚洲人和拉美人的健康结果有关(Kim&Ominzo，2006)。过去三十年的联邦报告和研究继续证明，文化适应是与一系列健康结果和健康行为有关的关键因素(Aregria，Sriney，Woo，Torres&Guarnaccia，2007；Amaro&de la Torre，2002；Andreeva，Unger，Yaroch，Cockburn，Baezconde-Garbanati，&Reynolds，2009；Caetano，Vaeth，Ramisetty-Mikler，&Rodriguez，2009；De La Rosa，Vega，&Radisch，2000；Fuentes-Afflick&Hessol，2008；-Kozlow，2009；Montez&Eschbach，2008；Sussner，Lindsay，&Peterson，2007)。在同一时期，实证研究报告了关于文化适应的作用的不一致结论，主要归因于对文化适应的评估的显著差异，许多措施的代理性质，以及措施缺乏跨文化有效性(Rogler，Cortes，&Malgady，1991；Stevens&Vollebergh，2008)。Thomson&Hoffman-Goetz(2009)的文章《定义和衡量文化适应：美国拉美裔人口公共卫生研究的系统回顾》(2009年)是朝着正确方向迈出的极好的一步，因为它帮助研究受众盘点哪些措施是可用的，以及这些措施能提供什么。在他们的论文中，Thomson和Hoffman-Goetz(2009)系统地回顾了过去30年来公共卫生研究中拉丁裔人口中文化适应的定义和测量。罗勒和他的同事在大约20年前进行的一项类似的研究回顾(Rogler et al.，1991)与汤姆森和霍夫曼-戈茨对文化适应措施的担忧有许多相似之处。Thomson和Hoffman-Goetz(2009)得出结论，现有的文化适应量表有很大的局限性。特别是，他们强调缺乏精确度，一维标尺的错误使用，以及在测量中忽视适应文化变化的过程，这
With the swelling number of immigrants coming to the US, there has been a growing concern about development of measures that capture the gradual process of acculturation; yet there has been no consensus on what to measure and how to measure it. Acculturation (ie defined as a multidimensional process of the adoption of US cultural norms, values and lifestyles; see Lara, Gamboa, Kahramanian, Morales, & Bautista, 2005) and enculturation (ie defined as the preservation of native cultural values, norms or lifestyle patterns), have been hypothesized to be linked to health outcomes of different ethnic groups such as Asians and Latinos (Kim & Ominzo, 2006). Federal reports and research studies over the past three decades continue to document that acculturation is a critical factor associated with a wide range of health outcomes and health behaviors (Alegria, Sribney, Woo, Torres, & Guarnaccia, 2007; Amaro & De la Torre, 2002; Andreeva, Unger, Yaroch, Cockburn, Baezconde-Garbanati, & Reynolds, 2009; Caetano, Vaeth, Ramisetty-Mikler, & Rodriguez, 2009; De La Rosa, Vega, & Radisch, 2000; Fuentes-Afflick & Hessol, 2008; Johnson-Kozlow, 2009; Montez & Eschbach, 2008; Sussner, Lindsay, & Peterson, 2007). During this same period, empirical investigations have reported inconsistent findings regarding the role of acculturation, mostly attributed to the pronounced variation in the assessment of acculturation, the proxy nature of many of these measures and the lack of cross-cultural validity of the measures (Rogler, Cortes, & Malgady, 1991; Stevens & Vollebergh, 2008).The article “Defining and Measuring Acculturation: A Systematic Review of Public Health Studies with Hispanic Populations in the United States” by Thomson & Hoffman-Goetz (2009) is an excellent step in the right direction, as it helps the research audience take inventory of what measures are available and what these measures can offer. In their paper, Thomson and Hoffman-Goetz (2009) systematically review the definition and measurement of acculturation among Latino populations in public health research over the past 30 years. A similar review of studies by Rogler and colleagues conducted almost twenty years before (Rogler et al., 1991) shares many of Thomson and Hoffman-Goetz’s concerns about acculturation measures. Thomson and Hoffman-Goetz (2009) conclude that existing acculturation scales have significant limitations. In particular, they highlight a lack of precision, erroneous use of unidimensional scales, and neglect of acculturative change processes in measurement, which
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