Table 3.

Five-Class Solution: Latent Class Probabilities, Class Size, and Conditional Probabilities

		Less Acculturated	Bicultural Immigrants	Bicultural Children of Immigrants	Highly Acculturated	Marginalized
Indicators		6% (n=96)	21% (n=340)	46% (n=752)	22% (n=362)	5% (n=82)
Linguistic Acculturation – Family	Spanish dominant	83.13	46.94	30.20	0.91	16.46
	Bilingual	11.56	48.44	68.14	23.90	59.63
	English dominant	5.31	4.62	1.66	75.19	23.60
Linguistic Acculturation – Friends	Spanish dominant	87.50	7.32	5.41	0.58	6.46
	Bilingual	8.23	57.82	48.66	6.16	34.76
	English dominant	4.27	34.85	45.93	93.26	58.78
Linguistic Acculturation - Media	Spanish dominant	61.35	7.71	4.19	0.97	11.59
	Bilingual	23.96	64.74	52.22	15.55	22.68
	English dominant	14.69	27.56	43.59	83.48	65.73
Attitudinal Acculturation – Mexican
Culture	High affinity	95.21	99.50	98.60	94.39	18.29
	Low affinity	4.79	0.50	1.40	5.61	81.71
Attitudinal Acculturation – U.S.
Culture	High affinity	72.92	82.03	83.66	91.80	37.44
	Low affinity	27.08	17.97	16.34	8.20	62.56
Behavioral Acculturation	United States	25.31	22.65	36.46	73.48	46.34
	Origin country	53.65	28.00	19.19	5.77	18.66
	Both places	17.29	45.62	41.28	14.94	27.32
	Neither place	3.75	3.74	3.07	5.80	7.68
Generation Status	First	86.98	98.29	3.71	1.91	34.88
	Second	10.94	1.32	90.82	24.42	51.71
	Third or higher	2.08	0.38	5.47	73.67	13.41
Time in U. S.	Less than 1 year	42.29	6.41	0.96	0.28	3.78
	1-5 years	47.60	44.82	4.14	1.16	13.90
	6-10 years	4.06	41.06	12.25	3.70	29.63
	More than 10 years	6.04	7.71	82.66	94.86	52.68
Exposure to Mexican Culture	None	43.13	43.32	21.20	64.31	37.32
	More than 3 years ago	13.65	29.24	37.69	15.14	24.76
	In the last 3 years	43.23	27.44	41.12	20.55	37.93
Ethnic Identification	Low	10.52	1.26	4.40	7.93	65.61
	Moderate	43.54	55.65	60.44	62.02	33.54
	High	45.94	43.09	35.16	30.06	0.85