TABLE 3.

Factor loadings for cultural value items with Cronbach’s alpha for scales

Cultural values	Factor loading
Familism (mean = 3.32, SD = 0.60, α = 0.77)
If one of my relatives needed a place to stay for a few months, my family would let them stay with us.	0.638
I expect my relatives to help me when I need them.	0.688
When a family makes an important decision, they should talk about it with their close relatives.	0.713
If anyone in my family needed help, we would all be there to help them.	0.643
Respeto (mean = 3.71, SD = 0.52, α = 0.89)
I will take care of my parents when they are old.	0.723
It is important to honor my parents.	0.791
It is important to respect my parents.	0.797
I want to be a good person so that people know that my parents raised me right.	0.758
Fatalism (mean = 2.96, SD = 0.68, α = 0.72)
It’s more important to enjoy life now than to plan for the future.	0.738
People can’t really do much to change what happens in life. You just have to accept things.	0.743
I live for today because I don’t know what will happen in the future.	0.725
I don’t plan ahead because most things in life are a matter of luck.	0.682
Machismo (mean = 2.19, SD = 0.62, α = 0.77)
Boys should not be allowed to play with dolls and other girls’ toys.	0.632
Parents should maintain stricter control over their daughters then their sons.	0.566
There are some jobs that women simply should not have.	0.707
A wife should never contradict her husband in public.	0.740
Men are more intelligent than women.	0.653
No matter what people say, women really like dominant men.	0.635
Some equality in marriage is a good thing, but the father ought to have the main say in family matters.	0.694