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Thank you for your interest in this research project. Data
collection for this project has been completed and some results are available below. Other
results will be added to this webpage as available.
Future
studies may be planned to follow-up on these findings.
CFLS Press
NEW Papers and Presentations!
Ferguson, G. M., & Bornstein, M. H. (in press). Remote acculturation: The "Americanization" of Jamaican Islanders. International Journal of Behavioral Development. Contact first author for copy (gmfergus@knox.edu)
Kumar, A., & Ferguson, G. M. (September, 2011). CFLS Brief #2: Understanding ‘Americanized Jamaicans’: Consumption and Communication Habits.
Ferguson, G. M., Bornstein, M. H., & Pottinger, A. M. (in press).Tridimensional
acculturation and adaptation among Jamaican adolescent-mother dyads in the United States. Child Development, Special Section on children in immigrant families. Contact first author for copy (gmfergus@knox.edu)
Ferguson, G. M., Bornstein, M. H., & Pottinger, A. M. (April, 2011).Tridimensional
acculturation and adaptation among Black U.S. immigrants: The case of
Jamaican adolescents and their mothers. In R. Dimitrova, & G. M.
Ferguson (Co-chairs), The influence of immigration in children and youth: Evidence from Europe, Canada and USA. Symposium conducted at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Ferguson, G. M., & Bornstein, M. H. (April, 2011). Remote acculturation in the 21st Century. Poster
presentation at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Ferguson, G. M., (April, 2011). Using
the BACAH with Black immigrants: Behavioral adaptation of Jamaican
adolescent-mother dyads living in the United States. In G. M.
Ferguson (Chair), Culturally appropriate assessment of behavioral and emotional functioning in North American and Caribbean Adolescents. Symposium conducted at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Ferguson, G. M., (January, 2011). The BIG Difference a small Island Can Make: A Paradigm Shift in 21st Century Acculturation Theory. Faculty "Fridays at Four"
presentation at Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois.
Culture and Family Life Study - In the Field

Study participants complete questionnaires at a Caribbean Festival in Chicago, Illinois, USA, 2009

Principal Investigator, Dr. Ferguson, takes a break from from data collection at a high school in Kingston, Jamaica, 2009
Briefs and Older Presentations
Ferguson, G. M., Bornstein, M. H., & Pottinger, A. M. (July, 2010). Acculturation and adaptation of Jamaican Immigrant families in the U.S. Poster
presentation at the 21st Biennial Meeting of the International Society
for the Study of Behavioral Development, Lusaka, Zambia.
Ferguson,
G. M., & Bornstein, M. H. (July, 2010). Remote acculturation: The
"Americanization" of native Jamaican adolescents and their mothers. In J. Santo (Chair), An ecological systems theory approach to child and adolescent development. Symposium conducted at the at the 21st Biennial Meeting of the International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development, Lusaka, Zambia.
Reuter, C. R., & Ferguson, G. M. (March, 2010). CFLS Brief #1: Beliefs
regarding teenagers' rights and obligations across four cultural
groups: Jamaicans, Jamaican Americans, African Americans, and European
Americans
Culture and Family Life Study - In the Lab

Dr. Ferguson and research assistants Aparna Kumar (bottom) & Joyce Lee discuss progress, 2011

Research assistant Joyce Lee (L) shares a secret for speedy data entry with Aparna Kumar (C) and Dr. Ferguson (R), 2011
What is the Culture &
Family Life Study?
The
Culture & Family Life Study is a survey of family
life
and
parent-teen relationships in Illinois and New York, USA and
Kingston,
Jamaica. This study is headed by an international research
team
based in the USA and in Jamaica (see contact
information below).
Our aim is to learn more about what teenagers
and mothers from different cultures find important and how
they
relate to each other. Interested and eligible teenagers and
their mothers are invited to participate after learning
more about the study by reading through this page.
Who can participate?
This
study is for male and female teenagers between
11 and 17 years old and their mothers. Only one mother-teen pair
from each
family is eligible to participate.
Gift for
participating
Participants who complete surveys will each receive a gift or have a chance to win a larger gift.
How can I be sure this is not
an internet scam?
This
study will not ask you for any money or request private information
such as credit card information, immigration records, social security number, or taxpayer registration number.
You may also notice that this web page is
hosted by the Knox College server,
which is the academic institution of the principal investigator, Dr.
Gail M. Ferguson. Full
contact information for Dr. Ferguson is included below and you are
welcome to call, email, or write to ask questions you may have about
the study
at any time. Institutional
affiliations and institutional websites for all the investigators are
also provided below, where you may learn more about each
researcher.
How will my privacy
be protected?
We
take your privacy very seriously. The principal investigator will ensure that each
participant’s survey
results will be
kept private and confidential. Your
answers will not be shown to other
family
members, teachers, pastors, or friends. That means parents will not see
their
teenagers' answers and teenagers will not see their parents '
answers. Any
personal information you provide, such as your name, will be
stored separately from you answers entered in the survey. Only members
of
the research team and our assistants will have access to the data ,
which will be stored on password protected computers. Results
from
all participants will be grouped together and analyzed to produce group
results. Results from individual participants will not be singled out. Again, this
study will NOT ask you about your legal immigration status or such
personal information. Your responses will be used strictly for internal
research purposes; we guarantee that they will NOT be shared with any other organization, solicitor or government agency.
What are the pros and cons of
participating?
Surveys
ask about issues ordinarily encountered in
daily life; therefore, participating in this study should not cause
undue stress. Rather,
participants may benefit from increased
personal awareness and improved family communication. The
results
of this study may also be used to help educators, health care
workers,
policy makers, and community organizations understand the
experiences
of diverse families today. Please note: Surveys
are no longer available for the Culture and Family Life Study as data
collection has been completed. However, future studies may
be planned to follow-up on these findings.
The
Culture and Family Life Study is conducted
in accordance with the
guidelines for ethical human research established by Knox College, the
University of
the West Indies, and the American Psychological Association.
For
independent advice on your rights as a research participant, please
contact: (In
USA) Professor Frank McAndrew, Chair, Institutional
Review
Board, Knox College, 2 East South Street, Galesburg, Illinois 61401,
(309)341-7525, email: fmcandre@knox.edu; or (In Jamaica) Professor
Archibald McDonald, Dean, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of
the West Indies, Mona, Kingston 7, (876) 927-1297, email:
medsci@uwimona.edu.jm.
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