Multicultural personality questionnaire: development of a short form.

Area of Science:

• Psychology
• Cross-cultural psychology
• Personality assessment

Background:

• The original Multicultural Personality Questionnaire (MPQ) is a comprehensive measure of traits relevant to intercultural interactions.
• A shorter, validated version is needed for efficient and widespread use in research and practice.
• Assessing multicultural personality is crucial for understanding adaptation and effectiveness in diverse cultural contexts.

Purpose of the Study:

• To develop and validate a short form of the Multicultural Personality Questionnaire (MPQ-SF).
• To reduce the length of the original MPQ while maintaining its psychometric properties.
• To provide a more accessible tool for measuring multicultural personality.

Main Methods:

• A split-sample scale validation design was employed with 511 participants.
• Principal component analysis (PCA) was used for item reduction in Study 1 (N=260).
• Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was used to validate the short form in Study 2 (N=251).

Main Results:

• A 40-item Multicultural Personality Questionnaire-Short Form (MPQ-SF) was successfully extracted from the original 91-item MPQ.
• Confirmatory factor analysis indicated a good fit of the MPQ-SF to the data (CFI=.94, RMSEA=.066).
• The MPQ-SF demonstrated satisfactory internal consistency (coefficient alphas) and strong correlations with the original MPQ scales, with predicted relationships to related measures.

Conclusions:

• The Multicultural Personality Questionnaire-Short Form (MPQ-SF) is a psychometrically sound and efficient measure.
• The MPQ-SF is suitable for assessing multicultural personality in research and applied settings.
• Further research should explore the MPQ-SF's utility across diverse cultural groups and contexts.