Ma Cecilia M S
HKCT Institute of Higher Education, New Territories, Hong Kong.
Front Psychol. 2020 Dec 8;11:596737. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.596737. eCollection 2020.
Seven hundred adolescents (Chinese = 50%; South Asian ethnic minority = 50%) with mean age of 15.3 years ( = 1.53). Multigroup confirmatory factor analysis was performed to assess measurement invariance of the MSPSS scale across Chinese and South Asian ethnic minority samples. Results show that the original three-factor structure of the MSPSS was supported in both samples. Measurement invariance was supported in terms of configural, metric, and partial scalar invariance. Given partial scalar invariance was achieved, the latent mean differences were compared across samples. Chinese adolescents had higher levels of all three types of social support when compared with their South Asian ethnic minority counterparts. The present study attempts to assess the measurement invariance of the MSPSS across ethnic groups in Asian society, which sheds light on future research that involves perceived social support among adolescents in Chinese culture contexts.
700名青少年（华裔占50%；南亚少数民族占50%），平均年龄为15.3岁（标准差=1.53）。进行了多组验证性因素分析，以评估MSPSS量表在中国和南亚少数民族样本中的测量不变性。结果表明，两个样本均支持MSPSS最初的三因素结构。在构型、度量和部分标量不变性方面均支持测量不变性。鉴于实现了部分标量不变性，对样本间的潜在均值差异进行了比较。与南亚少数民族青少年相比，华裔青少年在所有三种社会支持类型上的水平更高。本研究试图评估MSPSS在亚洲社会不同种族群体中的测量不变性，这为未来涉及中国文化背景下青少年感知社会支持的研究提供了启示。
