O'Connor Daniel P, Leach Heather J, Mama Scherezade K, Lee Rebecca E
a University of Houston.
Res Q Exerc Sport. 2015;86(3):303-10. doi: 10.1080/02701367.2015.1008965. Epub 2015 Mar 9.
Individual perceptions of one's neighborhood environment influence decisions about physical activity participation. Differences between single-family housing neighborhoods versus multi-family housing neighborhoods may affect perceptions and lead to varying responses on surveys designed to assess perceptions of the neighborhood environment for physical activity. This study tested the factorial invariance for the Physical Activity Neighborhood Environment Survey (PANES) between residents of single-family versus multi-family housing neighborhoods.
This study was a secondary data analysis of PANES ratings from African American and Hispanic or Latina women (n = 324) who participated in the Health Is Power study (NCI R01CA109403), a multi-site, community-based trial to investigate the relationship between neighborhood factors and physical activity adoption and maintenance. Factorial invariance was tested using a series of nested confirmatory factor analysis models.
The final model was a 2nd-order factor structure with partial invariance of item intercepts. The 2nd-order factor structure and the relationships of the PANES items to the 1st-order factors (amenable, unsafe, and walkable) and of the 1st-order factors to the 2nd-order factor (environment) were invariant between the single-family and multi-family housing neighborhood groups.
These findings support the construct validity of PANES, which can be considered valid for measuring neighborhood perceptions among residents of neighborhoods with different housing types.
个人对其邻里环境的认知会影响体育活动参与的决策。独栋住宅社区与多户住宅社区之间的差异可能会影响认知，并导致在旨在评估邻里环境对体育活动认知的调查中出现不同的反应。本研究测试了独栋住宅社区与多户住宅社区居民之间体育活动邻里环境调查（PANES）的因子不变性。
本研究是对参与“健康就是力量”研究（NCI R01CA109403）的非裔美国人和西班牙裔或拉丁裔女性（n = 324）的PANES评分进行的二次数据分析，该研究是一项多地点、基于社区的试验，旨在调查邻里因素与体育活动的采用和维持之间的关系。使用一系列嵌套的验证性因子分析模型测试因子不变性。
最终模型是一个二阶因子结构，具有项目截距的部分不变性。二阶因子结构以及PANES项目与一阶因子（适宜、不安全和可步行）之间的关系以及一阶因子与二阶因子（环境）之间的关系在独栋住宅和多户住宅社区组之间是不变的。
这些发现支持了PANES的结构效度，该量表可被认为对测量不同住房类型社区居民的邻里认知有效。
