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Measurement equivalence of neighborhood quality measures for European American and Mexican American families
Author(s) -
Kim Su Yeong,
Nair Rajni,
Knight George P.,
Roosa Mark W.,
Updegraff Kimberly A.
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
journal of community psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.585
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 1520-6629
pISSN - 0090-4392
DOI - 10.1002/jcop.20257
Subject(s) - equivalence (formal languages) , measurement invariance , factorial , psychology , perception , social psychology , construct (python library) , factorial analysis , quality (philosophy) , confirmatory factor analysis , structural equation modeling , mathematics , statistics , computer science , pure mathematics , mathematical analysis , philosophy , epistemology , neuroscience , programming language
The factorial and construct equivalence of subscales assessing parents' and children's perceptions of the quality of their neighborhood was examined in Mexican American and European American families. All subscales (dangerous people in the neighborhood, sense of safety in the neighborhood, quality of the physical environment) demonstrated adequate partial factorial invariance across English‐ and Spanish‐speaking Mexican American and European American families. Reports by children about dangerous people in the neighborhood was the closest to achieving strict factorial invariance, and the only one of the four dimensions to achieve invariance in the validity analyses across Mexican American and European American families. The implications of using these self‐report neighborhood quality measures in studies of multiple cultural or language groups are discussed. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.