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Cultural Awareness and Ethnic Loyalty: Dimensions of Cultural Variability Among Mexican American College Students
Author(s) -
Arbona Consuelo,
Flores Carmen L.,
Novy Diane M.
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
journal of counseling and development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.805
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1556-6676
pISSN - 0748-9633
DOI - 10.1002/j.1556-6676.1995.tb01804.x
Subject(s) - ethnic group , confirmatory factor analysis , loyalty , psychology , mexican americans , social psychology , cultural diversity , sample (material) , immigration , sociology , structural equation modeling , anthropology , geography , political science , statistics , mathematics , chemistry , archaeology , chromatography , law
This study examined the adequacy of Keefe and Padilla's (1987) model of cultural orientation on a sample of Mexican American students enrolled either in a technical college ( N = 125) or a state university ( N = 239) in southern Texas. Specifically, the goodness of fit of the factor model for the Cultural Awareness and Ethnic Loyalty scales was tested using confirmatory factor analyses. Results indicated an excellent fit for the model, which suggests that cultural variables among Mexican American college students may be described in terms of these two dimensions. Implications of these findings for research and counseling with Mexican American populations are discussed.