Miyamoto R H, Hishinuma E S, Nishimura S T, Nahulu L B, Andrade N N, Johnson R C, Makini G K, Yuen N Y, Kim S P, Goebert D A, Carlton B S, Bell C K
Native Hawaiian Mental Health Research Development Program (NHMHRDP), John A. Burns School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1356 Lusitana Street, 4th Floor, Honolulu, Hawaii 96813, USA.
Cultur Divers Ethnic Minor Psychol. 2001 May;7(2):152-63. doi: 10.1037/1099-9809.7.2.152.
Construct, scalar, and functional measurement equivalencies of the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSES) and Major Life Events checklist (MLE) and the constructs assessed were investigated across groups differentiated on Hawaiian/part-Hawaiian and non-Hawaiian (e.g., Caucasian, Filipino, Hispanic, Japanese, and mixed/2 or more) ethnicity and gender. Initial results from maximum likelihood factoring with promax rotation showed that RSES negatively worded Item 5 loaded with the positively worded Items 1, 2, 4, 6, and 7 on 1 of 2 factors for Hawaiian/part-Hawaiian female participants. Similarly, negatively worded Item 8 and the same positively worded items comprised 1 of 2 factors for non-Hawaiian male participants. For the other 2 Ethnicity x Gender groups, factors were respectively comprised of the 5 positively and 5 negatively worded RSES items. Construct equivalence or simple (2-factor) structure underlying the RSES was indicated across the 4 groups after Items 5 and 8 were excluded from a subsequent factoring procedure. Simple structure showed that Factor 1 comprised the positively worded Items 1, 2, 4, 6, and 7, and the remaining negatively worded Items 3, 9, and 10 loaded on Factor 2. Scalar equivalence of the self-esteem and major life events measures was supported by the statistical nonsignificance of the Major Life Events x Ethnicity x Gender interaction effect in multiple regression models. The consistency in the absolute size and direction of the intercorrelations between overall self-esteem, self-esteem Factors 1 and 2, and major life events variables indicated the functional equivalence of respective measures and constructs assessed. Measurement equivalency findings concerning the RSES and MLE, the constructs measured, and their utility versus caution against their use in multiethnic studies were discussed.
对罗森伯格自尊量表（RSES）和主要生活事件清单（MLE）以及所评估的结构进行了构建、标量和功能测量等效性研究，研究对象为按夏威夷/部分夏威夷族裔和非夏威夷族裔（如白种人、菲律宾人、西班牙裔、日本人以及混血/两种或更多族裔）和性别区分的群体。采用最大似然因子分析和斜交旋转的初步结果表明，对于夏威夷/部分夏威夷族裔女性参与者，RSES中反向计分的第5项在两个因子中的一个上与正向计分的第1、2、4、6和7项载荷在一起。同样，对于非夏威夷族裔男性参与者，反向计分的第8项和相同的正向计分项目构成了两个因子中的一个。对于其他两个种族×性别组，因子分别由5个正向计分和5个反向计分的RSES项目组成。在后续的因子分析过程中排除第5项和第8项后，表明RSES在这4个组中存在结构等效性或简单（双因子）结构。简单结构表明，因子1包含正向计分的第1、2、4、6和7项，其余反向计分的第3、9和10项载荷在因子2上。自尊和主要生活事件测量的标量等效性得到了多元回归模型中主要生活事件×种族×性别交互效应的统计不显著性的支持。总体自尊、自尊因子1和2以及主要生活事件变量之间相互关联的绝对大小和方向的一致性表明了各自测量方法和所评估结构的功能等效性。讨论了关于RSES和MLE的测量等效性结果、所测量的结构以及它们在多民族研究中的效用与使用时的注意事项。
