University of Colorado Boulder, CO, USA.
Hunter College, New York, NY, USA.
Assessment. 2020 Apr;27(3):508-517. doi: 10.1177/1073191118774131. Epub 2018 May 29.
Although women demonstrate higher levels of rumination than men, it is unknown whether instruments used to measure rumination have the same psychometric properties for women and men. To examine this question, we evaluated measurement invariance of the brooding and reflection subscales from the Ruminative Responses Scale (RRS) by gender, using data from four samples of undergraduates from three universities within the United States ( = 4,205). A multigroup confirmatory factor analysis revealed evidence for configural, metric, and scalar invariance of the covariance structure of the 10-item version of the RRS. There were statistically significant latent mean differences between women and men, with women scoring significantly higher than men on both brooding and reflection. These findings suggest that the 10-item version of the RRS provides an assessment of rumination that is psychometrically equivalent across gender. Consequently, gender differences in brooding and reflection likely reflect valid differences between women and men.
虽然女性表现出比男性更高水平的沉思，但目前尚不清楚用于衡量沉思的工具是否对女性和男性具有相同的心理计量特性。为了检验这个问题，我们使用来自美国三所大学的四个本科生样本的数据（n=4205），按性别评估了沉思反应量表（RRS）的沉思和反思分量表的测量不变性。多组验证性因素分析显示，RRS 10 项版本的协方差结构具有组态、度量和标度不变性的证据。女性和男性在沉思和反思上的潜在均值存在统计学上显著的差异，女性的得分明显高于男性。这些发现表明，RRS 的 10 项版本提供了一种对沉思的评估，在性别上具有心理计量等效性。因此，沉思和反思的性别差异可能反映了女性和男性之间的真实差异。
