Table 2.
Mean Levels of Acculturation-Related Variables by Personal Identity Status
| Variable | Achievement | Searching moratorium |
Foreclosure | Diffused diffusion |
Carefree diffusion |
Undifferentiated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American practices | 62.52a (7.65) | 62.73a (7.45) | 60.41b (7.42) | 59.66b (8.38) | 54.53c (10.44) | 59.24b (8.17) |
| Heritage practices | 60.11a (13.69) | 59.95a (14.09) | 55.88ab (13.31) | 53.42b (12.46) | 53.79b (13.64) | 57.19a (13.29) |
| Horizontal individualism | 17.34a (2.64) | 17.50a (2.53) | 16.51b (2.68) | 15.98b (2.75) | 14.33c (3.04) | 16.03b (2.53) |
| Vertical individualism | 13.03a (3.51) | 14.32b (3.59) | 11.84c (3.43) | 12.49ac (3.60) | 12.04c (2.90) | 12.76a (3.17) |
| Independence | 46.51a (6.42) | 46.81a (6.31) | 44.06b (6.50) | 41.82c (5.91) | 39.69c (6.68) | 43.08b (5.98) |
| Horizontal collectivism | 16.03a (2.71) | 16.23a (2.49) | 15.12b (2.74) | 15.14b (2.82) | 13.79c (2.85) | 14.94b (2.45) |
| Vertical collectivism | 16.21a (3.12) | 16.62a (2.76) | 15.26b (2.76) | 15.33b (2.90) | 13.86c (3.03) | 15.40b (2.67) |
| Interdependence | 44.38a (7.04) | 46.88b (6.68) | 42.18c (6.51) | 44.24a (5.65) | 41.40c (7.30) | 43.73a (6.14) |
| American identity | 46.64a (9.66) | 48.09a (9.20) | 43.20b (8.52) | 43.65b (9.27) | 38.67c (8.47) | 43.64b (7.88) |
| Ethnic identity | 47.04a (9.73) | 49.40a (8.58) | 43.78b (9.33) | 42.64b (9.31) | 40.19c (8.63) | 45.32a (8.29) |
Note. Within each row, means with the same subscript do not differ from one another at p < .001.