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The present study was designed to examine ethnicity, acculturation, and religiosity as predictors of European American and Korean American evangelical female college students' role expectations. Fifty-seven European American and 37 Korean American single women, who ranged in age from 17 to 24 years, completed a demographic questionnaire, a role expectation measure, three religiosity measures, and an acculturation measure. The results indicated a significant negative correlation between fundamentalism and role-sharing expectations for European American women and a significant positive correlation between level of acculturation and role-sharing expectations for Korean American women. The results suggest that fundamentalism is a stronger predictor of role expectations than religious commitment in European American women and that acculturation is a more accurate predictor of role expectations than generation in the United States among Korean American women.
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Bang, E., Hall, M.E.L., Anderson, T.L. et al. Ethnicity, Acculturation, and Religiosity as Predictors of Female College Students' Role Expectations. Sex Roles 53, 231–237 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11199-005-5681-7
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