Dimensions of Jewish-American Identity
Dimensions of Jewish-American Identity
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犹太裔美国人身份的维度
DOI：
10.2466/pr0.1973.33.3.891
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发表时间：
1973
影响因子：
2.3
通讯作者：
I. Zak
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作者：
I. Zak
本研究提出的主要问题是：犹太人和美国人身份认同的内容和结构是什么？1971年，对来自美国各地的1006名犹太裔美国大学生进行了四次抽样调查。最初，因子分析被应用到单独的样本。因素结构的样本间比较表明高度的一致性，因此，样本合并进行后续分析。因子分析结果表明，大部分公因子方差被两个相对正交的因子所占据。与美国身份有关的项目和与犹太身份有关的项目在两个因素上的负荷都是中等偏高的。这些发现支持了犹太人和美国人身份认同维度的二元性和正交性的假设，并对一些研究者提出的犹太人-美国人身份认同形成两极连续体的概念提出了质疑。
The main problem posed in this study is: What are the content and structure of Jewish and American identity? The Jewish-American Identity Scale, which was adapted and refined for this study, was administered in 1971 to four samples, totaling 1006 Jewish-American college students from various parts of the United States. Initially, factor analysis was applied to the separate samples. Intersample comparisons of factor structures indicated a high degree of congruency; consequently, the samples were combined for subsequent analyses. Factor analysis of the test scores demonstrated that most of the common factor variance was appropriated by two relatively orthogonal factors. Items dealing with American identity and those dealing with Jewish identity had medium to high loadings on the two respective factors. These findings supported the hypothesis of the duality and the orthogonality of dimensions of Jewish and American identity, and cast doubt on the notion forwarded by some researchers that Jewish-American identity forms a bipolar continuum.