Cultural Equivalence of Adult Attachment Across Four Ethnic Groups: Factor Structure, Structured Means, and Associations With Negative Mood

Autor/inn/en	Wei, Meifen; Russell, Daniel W.; Mallinckrodt, Brent; Zakalik, Robyn A.
Titel	Cultural Equivalence of Adult Attachment Across Four Ethnic Groups: Factor Structure, Structured Means, and Associations With Negative Mood
Quelle	In: Journal of Counseling Psychology, 51 (2004) 4, S.408-417 (10 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-0167
Schlagwörter	African Americans; Hispanic Americans; Whites; College Students; Factor Structure; Asian Americans; Anxiety; Racial Differences; Attachment Behavior; Interpersonal Relationship; Psychological Patterns + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Afroamerikaner; Hispanic; Hispanoamerikaner; White; Weißer; Collegestudent; Faktorenstruktur; Asian immigrant; United States; Asiatischer Einwanderer; USA; Angst; Rassenunterschied; Attachment; Bindungsverhalten; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung
Abstract	This study examined factorial invariance, structured means, and association with negative mood of adult attachment across 4 ethnic groups. Online survey data (N = 831) were collected from African American, Asian American, Hispanic American, and Caucasian college students. Results indicated that the factor structure of the Experiences in Close Relationship Scale did not vary across the 4 groups. Asian Americans and perhaps also (p = .051) Hispanic Americans reported greater attachment anxiety, whereas African Americans and Asian Americans reported greater attachment avoidance than did their Caucasian peers. Attachment anxiety was significantly associated with negative mood in every group, although Asian Americans reported a stronger association than their African American and Caucasian peers. The magnitude of the association between attachment avoidance and negative mood was invariant across the groups. (Author).
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