The purpose of this study was to investigate the modes of acculturation and the response tendencies of adolescents (n = 133) of biethnic families living in Athens, as compared to adolescents (n = 113) of homoethnic families in Athens, and homoethnic adolescents (n = 80) of Greek immigrants in Germany and the Netherlands, by means of a scale of family values. Biethnic adolescents manifested different forms of acculturation of values as compared to homoethnic Greeks in Athens, Germany, and the Netherlands. The biethnic adolescents appear to be integrating primarily to the disparate value systems of their biethnic parents, manifested by reluctance to disagree with the values of the homoethnic or heteroethnic parent, and less to the ecological and social factors of the host culture. The response tendencies appear to be closer to "accommodation" but with a different response pattern dependent on whether they are toward the traditional or rejection of traditional values poles of the scale.
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