Testing the Structural Invariance of the Africultural Coping Systems Inventory Across Three Samples of African Descent Populations

Confirmatory factor analysis was used to test the factorial invariance of the Africultural Coping Systems Inventory’s (ACSI) measurement model and underlying factor structure across three independent and ethnically distinct samples of African descent populations. Results indicated that factor patter...

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Published inEducational and psychological measurement Vol. 64; no. 1; pp. 185 - 195
Main Authors Utsey, Shawn O., Brown, Christa, Bolden, Mark A.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London SAGE Publications 01.02.2004
Thousand Oaks, CA Sage Publications
New Delhi Sage
SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC
Subjects
African Americans
African Culture
Biological and medical sciences
Black people
College Students
Coping
Cultural Differences
Evaluation Methods
Factor Analysis
Factor Structure
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Measures (Individuals)
Minority Groups
Personality. Affectivity
Population
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Psychometrics
Stress
Test Validity
Tests
Africa
stress
Africultural
culture
coping
African American
Human
Test validation
Questionnaire
Cultural environment
Confirmatory factor analysis
Psychometrics
Coping
Ethnic group
Stress
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Summary:Confirmatory factor analysis was used to test the factorial invariance of the Africultural Coping Systems Inventory’s (ACSI) measurement model and underlying factor structure across three independent and ethnically distinct samples of African descent populations. Results indicated that factor pattern coefficients of the ACSI’s underlying structural model were invariant across the three samples, but its variance and covariance parameters were not.
ISSN:0013-1644
1552-3888
DOI:10.1177/0013164403258461