A Test of the Intergenerational Congruence in Immigrant Families-Child Scale with Southeast Asian Americans

Autor/inn/en	Ying, Yu-Wen; Han, Meekyung
Titel	A Test of the Intergenerational Congruence in Immigrant Families-Child Scale with Southeast Asian Americans
Quelle	In: Social Work Research, 31 (2007) 1, S.35-43 (9 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1070-5309
Schlagwörter	Measures (Individuals); Psychometrics; Young Adults; Social Work; Refugees; Construct Validity; Culture Conflict; Asian American Students; Immigrants; Age Differences; Adolescents; Parent Child Relationship; College Students; Higher Education; Test Reliability; Student Characteristics + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Messdaten; Psychometry; Psychometrie; Young adult; Junger Erwachsener; Soziale Arbeit; Flüchtling; Kulturkonflikt; Asian immigrant; United States; Student; Students; Asiatischer Einwanderer; USA; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Immigrant; Immigrantin; Immigranten; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Collegestudent; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Testreliabilität
Abstract	A common challenge facing immigrant families is intergenerational-intercultural conflict. Social workers are in need of an easy-to-use but psychometrically sound measure to assess this phenomenon and evaluate treatment effectiveness. The Intergenerational Congruence in Immigrant Families (ICIF) Scale was created for this purpose. The ICIF has two parallel versions, one to assess the perspective of the parent (ICIF-Parent Scale) and the other to assess the perspective of the adolescent or young adult children of immigrants (ICIF-Child Scale, or ICIF-CS) of the intergenerational relationship. As Southeast Asian American refugee families are at increased risk of intergenerational-intercultural conflict, the current study assesses the psychometric properties of the ICIF-CS in 188 Southeast Asian American college students with refugee parents. The ICIF-CS was found to be a unidimensional measure with high internal reliability. Its construct validity was supported by its positive association with parental attachment and self-esteem and negative association with family conflict and depressive symptom level. (Author).
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