Dimensions of Acculturation in Native American College Students.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Reynolds, Amy L.; Sodano, Sandro M.; Ecklund, Timothy R.; Guyker, Wendy
- Source
- Measurement & Evaluation in Counseling & Development; Apr2012, Vol. 45 Issue 2, p101-112, 12p
- Subject
- Acculturation
Psychology of college students
Factor analysis
Research methodology
Psychological tests
Research methodology evaluation
Psychology of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas
Scales (Weighing instruments)
Structural equation modeling
Descriptive statistics
United States
- Language
- ISSN
- 07481756
Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses were applied to the responses of two respective independent samples of Native American college students on the Native American Acculturation Scale (NAAS). Three correlated dimensions were found to underlie NAAS items and these dimensions may also comprise a broader higher order dimension of Native American acculturation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]