C. Robie et Am. Ryan, STRUCTURAL EQUIVALENCE OF A MEASURE OF CROSS-CULTURAL ADJUSTMENT, Educational and psychological measurement, 56(3), 1996, pp. 514-521
Citations number
20
Categorie Soggetti
Psychology, Educational","Psychologym Experimental","Mathematical, Methods, Social Sciences
This study investigated the structural equivalence of a measure of cro
ss-cultural adjustment in culturally dissimilar samples using confirma
tory factor analysis. The two samples consisted of 155 international s
tudents studying at a midwestern American university and 153 American
expatriate managers on assignment in either Taiwan or Belgium. Results
indicated that the hypothesized factor structure was invariant and ha
d a relatively good fit in both samples. The implication of these resu
lts is that adjustment may have similar dimensions across cultures. If
substantiated through future studies, these results would enable rese
archers to have more confidence in cross-cultural comparisons of mean
levels of adjustment or correlations of adjustment with external varia
bles.