Hoang Tuyet-Mai H, Maxie-Moreman Ashley, Polanco-Roman Lillian, Willis Henry A, Tynes Brendesha M
School of Social Work, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Children's National Hospital.
Cultur Divers Ethnic Minor Psychol. 2024 Oct 3. doi: 10.1037/cdp0000724.
Reliable and valid tools assessing online racism exposures in youth of color are needed. The present study examined the validity, internal consistency, and measurement invariance of the modified individual and vicarious Online Racial Discrimination (ORD) subscales from the Online Victimization Scale (OVS; Tynes et al., 2010).
Using a nationally representative sample of Black and Latinx adolescents ( = 696), this study employed an exploratory structural equation modeling (ESEM) to (a) confirm the factor structure with the updated individual and vicarious ORD subscales, (b) test the measurement invariance across racial-ethnic and gender groups, and (c) investigate the construct validity.
Findings revealed that the two-factor model provided good fit of the data and good conceptual clarity consistent with our original framework. Additionally, the individual and vicarious ORD subscales met the criteria for scalar measurement invariance across racial-ethnic groups. These subscales also met criteria for metric invariance across gender groups, and this finding cautions users from comparing (adjusted-)means of intercepts across gender groups given that scalar measurement invariance was not supported.
The ORD scale is a reliable and valid measure for assessing experiences of online racial discrimination in Black and Latinx adolescents. These findings provide further support for the ORD scale's psychometric properties to help advance this line of research. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).
需要可靠且有效的工具来评估有色人种青少年遭受的网络种族主义。本研究检验了在线受害量表（OVS；泰恩斯等人，2010年）中经过修改的个人和替代性在线种族歧视（ORD）子量表的有效性、内部一致性和测量不变性。
本研究使用了一个具有全国代表性的黑人和拉丁裔青少年样本（n = 696），采用探索性结构方程模型（ESEM）来（a）用更新后的个人和替代性ORD子量表确认因素结构，（b）检验跨种族和性别人群的测量不变性，以及（c）调查结构效度。
研究结果表明，双因素模型对数据拟合良好，且在概念上清晰，与我们最初的框架一致。此外，个人和替代性ORD子量表符合跨种族人群标量测量不变性的标准。这些子量表也符合跨性别群体的度量不变性标准，鉴于标量测量不变性未得到支持，这一发现提醒使用者不要比较跨性别群体的（调整后）截距均值。
ORD量表是评估黑人和拉丁裔青少年网络种族歧视经历的可靠且有效的测量工具。这些发现为ORD量表的心理测量特性提供了进一步支持，有助于推进这一研究领域。（PsycInfo数据库记录（c）2025美国心理学会，保留所有权利）
