Yap Stevie C Y, Donnellan M Brent, Schwartz Seth J, Zamboanga Byron L, Kim Su Yeong, Huynh Que-Lam, Vazsonyi Alexander T, Cano Miguel Ángel, Hurley Eric A, Whitbourne Susan Krauss, Castillo Linda G, Donovan Roxanne A, Blozis Shelly A, Brown Elissa J
Department of Psychology, Michigan State University.
Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami.
Cultur Divers Ethnic Minor Psychol. 2016 Jul;22(3):460-465. doi: 10.1037/cdp0000068. Epub 2015 Oct 12.
Past research has established that the Multigroup Ethnic Identity Measure (MEIM) exhibits measurement invariance across diverse ethnic groups. However, relatively little research has evaluated whether this measure is invariant across generational status. Thus, the present study evaluates the invariance of the MEIM across foreign-born, second-generation, and later-generation respondents.
A large, ethnically diverse sample of college students completed the MEIM as part of an online survey (N = 9,107; 72.8% women; mean age = 20.31 years; SD = 3.38).
There is evidence of configural and metric invariance, but there is little evidence of scalar invariance across generational status groups.
This study suggests that the MEIM has an equivalent factor structure across generation groups, indicating it is appropriate to compare the magnitude of associations between the MEIM and other variables across foreign-born, second-generation, and later-generation individuals. However, the lack of scalar invariance suggests that mean-level differences across generational status should be interpreted with caution. (PsycINFO Database Record
过去的研究已证实多群体族裔认同量表（MEIM）在不同族裔群体中呈现测量不变性。然而，相对较少的研究评估了该量表在代际状况方面是否具有不变性。因此，本研究评估了MEIM在外国出生者、第二代及后代受访者中的不变性。
一个种族多样化的大学生大样本完成了MEIM，作为在线调查的一部分（N = 9107；72.8%为女性；平均年龄 = 20.31岁；标准差 = 3.38）。
有证据表明构型和度量不变性，但几乎没有证据表明在代际状况组间存在标量不变性。
本研究表明MEIM在各代群体中具有等效的因子结构，这表明比较外国出生者、第二代及后代个体中MEIM与其他变量之间关联的强度是合适的。然而，缺乏标量不变性表明，对代际状况间的平均水平差异应谨慎解释。（PsycINFO数据库记录
