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Effects of acculturation on tests of attention and information processing in an ethnically diverse group☆
- Source :
- Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology. 22:333-341
- Publication Year :
- 2007
- Publisher :
- Oxford University Press (OUP), 2007.
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Abstract
- The objective of this study was to examine differences between fluent English-speaking ethnically diverse (ED) individuals (from Hispanic, Asian and Middle-Eastern descent) and monolingual English-speaking Anglo-Americans (MEAA) on commonly used tests of information processing and attention. A sample of 123 (84 ED and 39 MEAA) healthy individuals participated. The results revealed that the MEAA group outperformed the ED group on Trail Making Test Part B, Stroop B and C, and Auditory Consonant Trigrams (18s delay condition). Additionally, a host of acculturation variables such as score on a formal acculturation scale, amount of time educated outside of the U.S., and the amount of English spoken when growing up correlated with these various neuropsychological tests. The findings from this study highlight the importance of taking acculturation into account for fluent English-speaking ED individuals when administering and interpreting neuropsychological tests.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
Psychometrics
Statistics as Topic
Trail Making Test
Ethnic group
Neuropsychological Tests
White People
Developmental psychology
Mental Processes
Ethnicity
medicine
Humans
Attention
medicine.diagnostic_test
Social environment
Cognition
General Medicine
Neuropsychological test
Middle Aged
Acculturation
Psychiatry and Mental health
Clinical Psychology
Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology
Female
Psychology
Stroop effect
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 08876177
- Volume :
- 22
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....909c4c8c9cef72e20a69719084788730
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acn.2007.01.008