The purpose of this study was to assess the level of acculturation among Asian American university students at a large midwestern university using the SL-ASIA. With this sample, results in general support initial and follow-up findings of the scale's concurrent validity with college students from the West Coast and Rocky Mountain areas. Although no gender differences in level of acculturation were found, analyses comparing foreign-born and U.S.-born participants provided further evidence of concurrent validity for the scale.
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