Measurement of the "Acculturation Gap" in Immigrant Families and Implications for Parent-Child Relationships.

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Expanding the Acculturation Gap-Distress Model: An Integrative Review of Research (2011, methodology): “When studies measure acculturation along a linear path, information about the new and old culture is confounded within one measurement score, and it is difficult to understand where acculturative stresses derive [Birman, 2006b].”
Acculturation Gap And Family Adjustment (2006, background): “Rather, it is particular combinations of parent and child acculturation levels that are thought to be associated with family discord (Birman, 2006).”
Acculturation Gap, Intergenerational Conflict, Parenting Style, and Youth Distress in Immigrant Chinese American Families (2008, background): “Studies showing that acculturation gaps are related to maladjustment include those by Birman (2006a), Dinh and Nguyen (2006), Farver et al. (2002), and Tardif and Geva (2006).”
Remote acculturation: The “Americanization” of Jamaican Islanders (2012, methodology): “Not surprisingly, therefore, immigrant adolescents and parents tend to experience more relational conflict than do nonimmigrants (Birman, 2006; Kwak, 2003).”