Measurement of a Latino cultural value: The Simpatía scale.

Simpatía, a term that captures the tendency to prefer and create social interactions characterized by warmth and emotional positivity while also avoiding conflict and/or overt negativity, is a cultural factor relevant to Latinos. The goal of this article was to develop a scale that measures this cultural value.A self-report scale measure of simpatía was developed and administered to a combined sample of Latinos (N = 296) drawn from 3 larger...