Table 7.

The Influence of Acculturation on Individual Responsiveness

	Immigrant Families
Dependent Variable	Japanese immigrant (n = 32)	South Korean immigrant (n = 59)		South American immigrant (n = 32)
	Acculturation	European American Acculturation	South Korean Acculturation	Acculturation
Speak → Attend	−.02	.06 be	.05 be	.00 c
Attend → Speak	.04	−.16 bce	.17 bce	.12 c
Play → Attend	−.01 a	.06 b	.00 b	.03 c
Attend → Play	−.13	−.20 bd	.22 bd	−.11 cd
Play → Vocalize	−.22	−.28 ab	.37 ab	.50** c
Vocalize → Play	−.06 c	−.32* b	.33* b	−.03 c
Encourage → Vocalize	.04	−.13 b	.17 b	−.07 c
Vocalize → Encourage	.08 e	.12 b	.05 b	−.02 c

Note. Statistics are two-tailed Pearson correlations. Higher acculturation scores for Japanese immigrant and South American immigrant mothers mean that they are more acculturated to European American culture, and lower scores mean that they are more acculturated to their cultures of origin. For the South Korean immigrant sample, European American and South Korean acculturation were measured using two different scales in which a higher score means higher levels of acculturation. Superscripts in each cell indicate the specific covariates that were used in the analysis in that particular cell:

^ainfant age

^bmother age

^cmother education

^dmother in view

^einfant awake.

^*p ≤ .05.

^**p ≤ .01.

^***p ≤ .001.