Citation

Joiner TE, Walker RL. Psychol. Assess. 2002; 14(4): 462-466.

Affiliation

Department of Psychology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32306-1270, USA. joiner@psy.fsu.edu

Copyright

(Copyright © 2002, American Psychological Association)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

12501571

Abstract

The properties of the main measure of acculturative stress have not been systematically examined. The authors conducted a study of the construct validity of the Social, Attitudinal, Familial, and Environmental Acculturative Stress Scale (A. M. Padilla, Y. Wagatsuma, & K. J. Lindholm, 1985) in a sample of 248 African American university students (156 of whom attended a historically Black college). After controlling for general life stress, the authors found that the relations of acculturative stress to depressive and anxious (but not suicidal) symptoms remained. Also, African American students at a historically Black college reported less acculturative stress than African American students at a large state university. These findings clarify the nature of a key construct and measure of acculturative stress.

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