Lin Li, Shi Dexin, Snyder Lori Anderson, Lee Taehun, Taylor William Demar
Human Resources Center of Excellence, PepsiCo, Inc., Purchase, NY, United States.
Department of Psychology, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, United States.
Front Psychol. 2019 Jul 26;10:1651. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01651. eCollection 2019.
With a specific focus on the Native American population, the current study investigated the structure of ethnic identity, measured by the Multigroup Ethnic Identity Measure, using a bifactor model across Native American ( = 307), Asian ( = 348), and White ( = 549) undergraduate students. We further investigated measurement invariance across ethnic groups that shared the same factor structure. The results indicated that ethnic identity can be modeled by a bifactor structure with a general factor and two group factors, affective pride and exploration, for Native American and Asian respondents but not White respondents. In addition, measurement invariance tests supported partial weak invariance between the Native American group and the Asian group. The current findings suggest that comparisons of ethnic identity scores across ethnic groups should be treated with caution.
本研究特别关注美国原住民群体，使用多群体种族认同量表，通过双因素模型对美国原住民（n = 307）、亚裔（n = 348）和白人（n = 549）本科生的种族认同结构进行了调查。我们进一步研究了具有相同因素结构的不同种族群体之间的测量不变性。结果表明，对于美国原住民和亚裔受访者而言，种族认同可以用一个包含一般因素以及两个群体因素（情感自豪感和探索）的双因素结构来建模，但白人受访者不适用。此外，测量不变性检验支持美国原住民群体和亚裔群体之间的部分弱不变性。当前研究结果表明，跨种族群体比较种族认同得分时应谨慎对待。
