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The analysis of the results of this study presented two major problems. The first was the possibility arising from contamination. The problem of contamination appears when two separate instruments that are supposed to demonstrate a relationship between certain variables have overlapping or very similar content. In such a case there is always a possibility that the demonstrated relationship is not due to a genuine interrelation between two variables, but that it is an artifact of the similarity of the instruments used.1 In this study, for example, there is a section dealing with food habits in the Campisi Scale (measure of a dependent variable) and a section dealing with food habits in the interview schedule (measure of an independent variable). On the basis of this overlapping, it might be argued that the strong relationship between preference for Hungarian food and low acculturation (q.v. pp. 77–79) is a spurious one. To meet this objection, one could include an additional measure containing different and therefore uncontaminated terms. Thus, wherever possible, the results obtained with the Information Scale are also presented.
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That acculturation and adjustment are two separate phenomena and not necessarily related variables was further borne out by the findings of this study. The following hypotheses were not confirmed by our data: Respondents who feel they belong to the upper or middle class in the United States acculturate faster than respondents who feel they belong to the lower class (see page 74) Respondents who get along with their fellow workers acculturate faster than respondents who do not (see page 73). Respondents who claim they have a very close friend in the United States with whom they can discuss anything are more acculturated than respondents who have no such friend (see page 79). Respondents who are single or divorced acculturate faster than respondents who are married (see page 8r). Respondents who are satisfied with the way they spend their leisure time in the United States are more acculturated than those who are dissatisfied (see page 83). Respondents who feel they have undergone negative personality changes since their arrival in the United States are more acculturated than respondents who feel they have undergone positive changes (see page 88). Respondents who were satisfied with their childhood in Hungary are more accul- turated than respondents who were dissatisfied with their childhood (see page 88).
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Weinstock, S.A. (1969). Results. In: Acculturation and Occupation: A Study of the 1956 Hungarian Refugees in the United States. Publications of the Research Group for European Migration Problems, vol 15. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-6563-9_6
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