Research indicates that Latino survey respondents are more likely to acquiesce than non-Latino European Americans (EAs), thereby decreasing the potential for measurement invariance across cultural groups. To better understand what drives this culturally patterned response style, we examined the influence of respondent and interviewer characteristics on acquiescence. Data were obtained from a telephone survey of 400 Mexican American, Puerto Rican, Cuban American, and non-Latino EA respondents, and a self-administered survey of 21 interviewers. Higher acquiescence was associated with several respondent characteristics: older age, lower education, stronger Latino cultural orientation, Spanish use, Latino ethnicity, and, among Latinos, Cuban American ethnicity. In contrast, acquiescence was not influenced by respondent–interviewer social distance, social deference, or interviewer characteristics (e.g., education, gender, acculturation, interviewer experience). These findings indicate that acquiescence differs across Latino ethnic subgroups and that respondent and language factors are more influential determinants of acquiescence than survey interviewers.

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为什么拉丁裔调查受访者默许？受访者和访问者特征作为拉丁裔调查受访者默认文化模式的决定因素

研究表明，拉丁裔调查受访者比非拉丁裔欧洲裔美国人 (EA) 更有可能默许，从而降低了跨文化群体测量不变性的可能性。为了更好地理解是什么驱动了这种文化模式的回应风格，我们研究了受访者和采访者特征对默许的影响。数据来自对 400 名墨西哥裔美国人、波多黎各人、古巴裔美国人和非拉丁裔 EA 受访者的电话调查，以及对 21 名采访者的自我管理调查。较高的默许与几个受访者特征相关：年龄较大、受教育程度较低、拉丁裔文化倾向更强、使用西班牙语、拉丁裔，以及拉丁裔中的古巴裔美国人。相比之下，默许不受受访者-采访者社交距离的影响，社会尊重或采访者特征（例如，教育、性别、文化适应、采访者经历）。这些发现表明，默认情况在拉丁裔种族亚群之间有所不同，而且受访者和语言因素是比调查访问者更能影响默认的决定因素。