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A Test of the Intergenerational Congruence in Immigrant Families—Child Scale with Southeast Asian Americans
Social Work Research (2007)
  • Yu-Wen Ying, University of California - Berkeley
  • Meekyung Han, San Jose State University
Abstract
A common challenge facing immigrant families is intergenerational—intercultural conflict. Social workers are in need of an easy-to-use but psychometrically sound measure to assess this phenomenon and evaluate treatment effectiveness. The Intergenerational Congruence in Immigrant Families (ICIF) Scale was created for this purpose. The ICIF has two parallel versions, one to assess the perspective of the parent (ICIF—Parent Scale) and the other to assess the perspective of the adolescent or young adult children of immigrants (ICIF—Child Scale, or ICIF-CS) of the intergenerational relationship. As Southeast Asian American refugee families are at increased risk of intergenerational—intercultural conflict, the current study assesses the psychometric properties of the ICIF-CS in 188 Southeast Asian American college students with refugee parents. The ICIF-CS was found to be a unidimensional measure with high internal reliability. Its construct validity was supported by its positive association with parental attachment and self-esteem and negative association with family conflict and depressive symptom level.
Keywords
  • intergenerational congruence,
  • intergenerational relationship,
  • migrant families,
  • Southeast Asian Americans
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Publication Date
March, 2007
DOI
10.1093/swr/31.1.35
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Citation Information
Yu-Wen Ying and Meekyung Han. "A Test of the Intergenerational Congruence in Immigrant Families—Child Scale with Southeast Asian Americans" Social Work Research Vol. 31 Iss. 1 (2007) p. 35 - 43 ISSN: 1070-5309
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/meekyung-han/22/