The psychological sense of economic hardship: Measurement models, validity, and cross-ethnic equivalence for urban families
The psychological sense of economic hardship: Measurement models, validity, and cross-ethnic equivalence for urban families
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DOI：
10.1023/a:1010328115110
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发表时间：
2001-06-01
影响因子：
3.1
通讯作者：
Tein, JY
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作者：
Barrera, M;Caples, H;Tein, JY
贫穷是对少数民族家庭产生不良影响的一个社区压力源。关于贫穷的方案研究的一个方面侧重于经济困难的心理感受。在一项对319个非洲裔美国人、欧洲裔美国人和墨西哥裔美国人城市家庭的研究中，父母完成了对经济状况和经济困难程度的客观衡量，这些衡量是根据以前的研究改编的。测量模型确定了一个连贯的结构的心理意义上的经济困难，基本上是等同的母亲和父亲，讲英语和西班牙语的墨西哥裔美国人，和3个种族群体。为了支持这一结构的有效性，经济状况的客观指标和感知的经济困难之间的关系在这些相同的群体中表现出等效性。
Poverty is a community stressor that disproportionally affects ethnic minority families. One aspect of programmatic research on poverty focuses on the psychological sense of economic hardship. In a study of 319 African American, European American, and Mexican American urban families parents completed objective measures of economic status and scales of perceived economic hardship that were adapted from previous research. Measurement models identified a coherent construct of psychological sense of economic hardship that was essentially equivalent for mothers and fathers, English- and Spanish-speaking Mexican Americans, and the 3 ethnic groups. In support of the validity of this construct, relations between objective indicators of economic status and perceived economic hardship showed equivalence across these same groups.