Wong Quincy J J, Moulds Michelle L
Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Assessment. 2014 Dec;21(6):713-22. doi: 10.1177/1073191114528570. Epub 2014 Mar 26.
A body of research has demonstrated that individuals with Asian ethnicity endorse higher levels of fear of negative evaluation compared with individuals with European ethnicity. To date, no study has examined whether this Asian-European difference may be confounded by the differential interpretation of the measures of fear of negative evaluation by the two groups. The current study thus aimed to examine the measurement equivalence of the 12-item Brief Fear of Negative Evaluation (BFNE) scale and its 8-item variant composed of straightforwardly worded items (BFNE-S) in a sample of individuals who identified with a Chinese ethnicity (n = 204) and a sample of individuals who identified with an Anglo ethnicity (n = 528). Measurement equivalence across the samples was obtained for a two-factor BFNE model and a one-factor BFNE-S model. However, the BFNE-S model demonstrated superior fit to the data. Using the BFNE-S, we found that the Chinese ethnicity sample scored significantly higher on the latent dimension of fear of negative evaluation compared with the Anglo ethnicity sample (d = 0.24). These findings disambiguate previous research on Asian-European differences in fear of negative evaluation and highlight the need for the continued examination of the validity of measures across different ethnicities and cultures.
大量研究表明，与欧洲裔个体相比，亚裔个体表现出更高程度的对负面评价的恐惧。迄今为止，尚无研究考察这种亚裔与欧洲裔之间的差异是否可能因两组对负面评价恐惧测量方式的不同解读而混淆。因此，本研究旨在考察在一个华裔个体样本（n = 204）和一个英裔个体样本（n = 528）中，12项简短负面评价恐惧量表（BFNE）及其由措辞直白的项目组成的8项变体（BFNE-S）的测量等价性。在一个双因素BFNE模型和一个单因素BFNE-S模型中获得了样本间的测量等价性。然而，BFNE-S模型对数据的拟合度更佳。使用BFNE-S，我们发现华裔样本在负面评价恐惧的潜在维度上的得分显著高于英裔样本（d = 0.24）。这些发现消除了先前关于亚裔与欧洲裔在负面评价恐惧方面差异的研究中的歧义，并强调了持续考察不同种族和文化中测量方法有效性的必要性。
