I am looking for an instrument to measure acculturative stress among Iranian immigrant couples who at least one of the couples is post-graduate student in Malaysia. It should be included all aspects of this risk factor, such as the death or illness of family members in absence of them in Iran, financial problems, academic problems, religious freedom problems, health problems, weather problem (such as the danger of Dangi), job problem, and problems with training the children in a strange environment/culture. Although I already found some, they don't sound to be suitable for my research. Would you please give me some help? Anyone knows any acculturative stress scale?
If you look for such a measure, I would probably go for the socio-cultural adaptation measure developed by Ward and Kennedy. It does measure acculturation-related difficulties in many domains of life.
Ward, C., & Kennedy, A. (1999). The measurement of sociocultural adaptation. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 23(4), 659-677.
A number of years ago, I had published, Acculturative Stress Scale for International Students which was published in the Psychological Reports. This scale was used by several authors to conduct research studies on immigrants, theses, and dissertations. I am attaching an original copy of this scale for your review and use. I hope you would find it useful. Here is a reference to the original article,
Sandhu, D.S., & Asrabadi, B.R. (1994). Development of an acculturative stress scale for international students: Preliminary findings. Psychological Reports, 75, 435-448.
Interestingly, my co-author, Dr. Badiollah R. Asrabadi was from Iran who became Dean of the College of Education.
Best of luck! Daya Singh Sandhu
Dear Prof. Sandhu
So glad to see your reply here dear professor. I have contacted you before via email and you kindly sent me this instrument and gave me permission to use it. I would like to appreciate you and dear professor Asrabadi once more.
I have already finished my pilot test using a combination of ILS (Yang & Clum, 1995) and ASSIS. I modified and prepared it into 40 items. Now, I am writing a paper on the results.
Thank you again,
Best regards,
Farimah
Wow, what a small world! Fariman, thank you for your kind words. I wish you all the best on your project! I also applaud Researchgate's tremendous help to bring writers and scholars together to enhance knowledge for the humanity. Daya Singh Sandhu
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