Yap Stevie C Y, Donnellan M Brent, Schwartz Seth J, Kim Su Yeong, Castillo Linda G, Zamboanga Byron L, Weisskirch Robert S, Lee Richard M, Park Irene J K, Whitbourne Susan Krauss, Vazsonyi Alexander T
Department of Psychology, Michigan State University.
Department of Public Health Sciences, Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami.
J Couns Psychol. 2014 Jul;61(3):437-446. doi: 10.1037/a0036253. Epub 2014 Mar 24.
In this article, we evaluate the factor structure of the Multigroup Ethnic Identity Measure (MEIM; Phinney, 1992) and test whether the MEIM exhibits measurement invariance across ethnic groups taken from a diverse sample of students from 30 different colleges and universities across the United States (N = 9,625). Initial analyses suggested that a bifactor model was an adequate representation of the structure of the MEIM. This model was then used in subsequent invariance tests. Results suggested that the MEIM displayed configural and metric invariance across 5 diverse ethnic groups (i.e., White, Black, Hispanic, East Asian, and South Asian). There were indications that the MEIM displayed a similar factor structure with roughly equivalent factor loadings across diverse ethnic groups. However, there was little evidence of scalar invariance across these groups, suggesting that mean-level comparisons of MEIM scores across ethnic groups should be interpreted with caution. The implications of these findings for the interpretation and use of this popular measure of ethnic identity are discussed.
在本文中，我们评估了多群体族裔认同量表（MEIM；菲尼，1992）的因子结构，并测试了MEIM在来自美国30所不同学院和大学的多样化学生样本中的不同族裔群体间是否具有测量不变性（N = 9625）。初步分析表明，双因子模型能够充分代表MEIM的结构。该模型随后被用于后续的不变性测试。结果表明，MEIM在5个不同族裔群体（即白人、黑人、西班牙裔、东亚人和南亚人）中表现出构型和度量不变性。有迹象表明，MEIM在不同族裔群体中呈现出相似的因子结构，且因子载荷大致相当。然而，几乎没有证据表明这些群体间存在标量不变性，这表明跨族裔群体对MEIM分数进行均值水平比较时应谨慎解释。本文讨论了这些发现对这一常用族裔认同测量方法的解释和使用的影响。
