STRUCTURAL EQUIVALENCE OF A MEASURE OF CROSS-CULTURAL ADJUSTMENT

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.