Effect of Acculturation and Mutuality on Family Loyalty Among Mexican American Caregivers of Elders

摘要: AbstractPurpose: Informal family care for elders is conventional in Mexican American communities despite increasing intergenerational gaps filial values. In our study, we explored whether acculturation and dyadic mutuality, as perceived by caregivers, explain the caregivers' expectations of loyalty toward elderly relatives.Design: A nonexperimental, correlational design with convenience sampling was used El Paso, Texas, from October 2007 to January 2008.Methods: Three bilingual promotoras collected data 193 adult caregivers community-dwelling using three scales designed Americans: Acculturation Rating Scale Americans Il-Short Form, Mutuality Scale, Expectations Family Loyalty Children Toward Elderly Relatives Scale. Confirmatory factor analysis analyze data.Findings: had a marginal effect (r = .21, p Conclusions: Although strong orientation may have high relatives, mutuality exhibits more significant effects on expectations. Among Americans, between caregiving dyad, be better predictor values than alone.Clinical Relevance: It useful incorporate dual paradigm into immigrant relatives.Key wordsAcculturation, loyalty, elderly, AmericanThe demographic profile United States has become older ethnically diverse. An example nation's changing demographics fast-growing population Hispanic or Latino (Villa, Wallace, & Huynh-Hohnbaum, 2005-2006), which includes Americans. Despite Americans' higher rate disability compared other ethnic immigrants (Blaum, West, Haan, 2007), they tend use fewer formal long-term services (Crist Speaks, 2011). One reason this seeming contradiction that relatives exerts protective elders' wellbeing, mirroring "Hispanic paradox." That is, comparable health outcomes to, some cases than, those their U.S. White counterparts, even though lower income education attainment (Blue Fenelon, likely shields harms outside family, thus perceive themselves healthy not necessarily healthy.Contrary traditional cultural norms, unity emphasized over individual needs goals, it well documented exposure culture weakened tendency members due distance, mobility, urbanization (Kao, McHugh, Travis, 2007). With quicker younger generation generation, develop (Schwartz, Zamboanga, Jarvis, diminishing capacity reserved elderly. can relatives.Literature ReviewAccording wisdom, parental sacrifices generate obligations (Stuifbergen Van Delden, …