Revising and Improving the African American Acculturation Scale
- 1 May 2000
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Journal of Black Psychology
- Vol. 26 (2) , 235-261
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0095798400026002007
Abstract
The African American Acculturation Scale (AAAS) was revised and improved with a sample of 520 African American adults. Items that some participants in prior studies found objectionable were dropped, and a new version of the scale was created by factor analyzing the remaining items. The revised AAAS (AAAS-R) consists of 47 items that no participant has objected to; these comprise eight new, empirically derived subscales (i.e., factors) that have high reliability and validity and correlate r = .97 with the original 74-item version of the scale. It is strongly recommended that researchers interested in studying acculturation among African Americans use this new version of the scale.Keywords
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