Assessing Invariance of Universal Ethnic-Racial Identity Measures Among Black Adolescents in the United States

被引:2
作者
Agi-Garratt, Abunya [1 ]
Wantchekon, Kristia A. [3 ]
Rivas-Drake, Deborah [2 ]
Umana-Taylor, Adriana J. [4 ]
机构
[1] Univ Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI USA
[2] Univ Michigan, Educ & Psychol, Ann Arbor, MI USA
[3] Georgetown Univ, Psychol, Washington, DC 20057 USA
[4] Harvard Univ, Educ, Cambridge, MA USA
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
Black adolescents; Immigrant-origin; Ethnic-racial identity; Measurement invariance; AFRICAN-AMERICAN; MULTIDIMENSIONAL INVENTORY; FIT INDEXES; DISCRIMINATION; IMMIGRANTS; SOCIALIZATION; LATINO; SCALE;
D O I
10.1007/s10964-023-01790-x
中图分类号
B844 [发展心理学(人类心理学)];
学科分类号
040202 ;
摘要
Black immigrants and their children represent a significant and growing share of the U.S. Black population; however, their experiences of their multifaceted identities are often collapsed into the experiences of multigenerational Black youth. The current study investigates whether generalized ethnic-racial identity measures are equivalent for Black youth with an immigrant parent and Black youth with only U.S.-born parents. Participants were 767 Black adolescents (16.6% immigrant-origin; M-age = 16.28, SD = 1.12) attending diverse high schools in two regions of the U.S. Participants completed the affirmation, exploration, and resolution subscales of the Ethnic Identity Scale-Brief (EIS-B), along with the centrality and public regard subscales of the Multidimensional Inventory of Black Identity-Teen (MIBI-T). The results indicated that, whereas the EIS-B demonstrated scalar invariance, the MIBI-T demonstrated partial scalar invariance. Accounting for measurement error, immigrant-origin youth reported lower affirmation than multigenerational U.S.-origin youth. Across groups, ethnic-racial identity exploration and resolution scores were positively associated with family ethnic socialization; ethnic-racial identity affirmation was positively associated with self-esteem; and ethnic-racial identity public regard was negatively associated with ethnic-racial discrimination, supporting convergent validity. Conversely, centrality was positively associated with discrimination among multigenerational U.S.-origin Black youth, but the relation was not significant among immigrant-origin Black youth. These results fill a methodological gap in the literature, providing researchers with empirical support for considering whether to pool immigrant-origin and multigenerational U.S.-origin Black youth in analyses regarding ethnic-racial identity.
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页码:1950 / 1964
页数:15
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