Table 2.
List of Culture and Environment Measures, Measure Characteristics, Order of Administration, and Administration Time.
| Measure (scale alpha) | What it measures | Number of Items in Measure |
Administration Time (Min) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Youth | Parent | Youth | Parent | ||
| Cutural/Ethnic group membership | Membership and values | ||||
| Vancouver Index of Acculturation-Short (92/90a) | Acculturation/Bi-culturalism | – | 16 | – | 5 |
| Multi-Group Ethnic Identity-Revised (0.90) | Cultural affiliation | – | 6 | – | 2 |
| Mexican American Cultural Values Scale (0.92b) | Cultural values of familism, religion, independence, self-reliance | – | 28 | – | 5 |
| Native American Acculturation Scale (Native American Parents only) (0.67) | Tribal affiliation | – | 9 | – | 5 |
| Acculturation | Language preference & proficiency | 5 | 5 | 1 | 1 |
| Language pref: youth | |||||
| Language pref: parent | |||||
| (0.35/0.79c) | |||||
| PROXIMAL SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT | |||||
| Neighborhood Safety & Crime (0.87) | Neighborhood safety & crime | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
| School Risk & Protective Factors (0.60/0.64/0.21d) | School environment | 12 | – | 1 | – |
| SOCIAL INTERACTIONAL INFLUENCES | |||||
| Acceptance Subscale from CRPBI-Shorte (0.71) | Parental warmth & acceptance | 5 | – | 2 | – |
| Family Environment Scale (Family Conflict Subscale) (0.68/0.63c) | Family conflict | 9 | 9 | 2 | 2 |
| Parental Monitoring (0.44) | Parental monitoring | 5 | – | 1 | – |
| Prosocial Scale 0.59/0.81c | Prosocial behavior | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
| Total | 31 | 70 | 9 | 22 | |
a
Heritage culture alpha/American culture alpha.
b
Overall scale alpha; Subscale alphas: Familism-Support, 0.80; Familism-Obligation, 0.70; Familism-Referent, 0.78; Religion, 0.97; Independence/Self Reliance, 0.61.
c
Youth scale alpha/Parent scale alpha.
d
School environment/School involvement/School disengagement.
e
Also administered to secondary caretaker (father, grandmother, etc.).