TY - JOUR
T1 - Measurement invariance of the Multigroup Ethnic Identity Measure (MEIM) across Bulgarian, Dutch and Greek samples
AU - Mastrotheodoros, Stefanos
AU - Dimitrova, Radosveta
AU - Motti-Stefanidi, Frosso
AU - Abubakar, Amina
AU - van de Schoot, Rens
N1 - Funding Information:
Correspondence should be addressed to Stefanos Mastrotheodoros, Department of Psychology, University of Athens, Panepistimiopolis, Ilissia, Athens, 15784 Greece. E-mail: [email protected] The current paper was written as part of a writing week organized by the young researchers of the European Association of Developmental Psychology (EADP). We gratefully thank the EADP European Association of Developmental Psychology for the funding for making this research possible. We would like to thank Leonard Vanbrabant for assisting with the analyses and Suzannah Ravenscroft for proof-reading the text. Stefanos Mastrotheodoros is supported as a PhD student with a scholarship from the Propondis Foundation, Peireaus, Greece. The AStRA project was supported by a small grant to the third author by the Special Research Account of the University of Athens, Greece.
PY - 2012/7
Y1 - 2012/7
N2 - The Multigroup Ethnic Identity Measure (MEIM; Phinney, 1992) is a widely used instrument to quantify the way people think, feel, and behave regarding their ethnic origin. This instrument is commonly used to compare groups of people from different ethnic and/or cultural backgrounds. However, in order for these comparisons to be accurate, measurement invariance between groups needs to be tested and this is what has been done in the current study. First, confirmatory factor analyses were conducted separately for data sets with Bulgarian, Dutch, and Greek adolescents. Second, configural and scalar invariance were tested. Finally, comparisons between Bulgarian, Dutch, and Greek adolescents were made on their scores on MEIM.
AB - The Multigroup Ethnic Identity Measure (MEIM; Phinney, 1992) is a widely used instrument to quantify the way people think, feel, and behave regarding their ethnic origin. This instrument is commonly used to compare groups of people from different ethnic and/or cultural backgrounds. However, in order for these comparisons to be accurate, measurement invariance between groups needs to be tested and this is what has been done in the current study. First, confirmatory factor analyses were conducted separately for data sets with Bulgarian, Dutch, and Greek adolescents. Second, configural and scalar invariance were tested. Finally, comparisons between Bulgarian, Dutch, and Greek adolescents were made on their scores on MEIM.
KW - Bulgaria
KW - Ethnic identity
KW - Greece
KW - MEIM
KW - Measurement invariance
KW - The Netherlands
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U2 - 10.1080/17405629.2012.688099
DO - 10.1080/17405629.2012.688099
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84863590482
SN - 1740-5629
VL - 9
SP - 508
EP - 515
JO - European Journal of Developmental Psychology
JF - European Journal of Developmental Psychology
IS - 4
ER -