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Area of Science:

  • Educational Psychology
  • Cross-Cultural Psychology
  • Psychometrics

Background:

  • The Academic Performance Antecedent Scale (APAS) is a new instrument designed to evaluate factors influencing academic achievement.
  • Understanding measurement invariance is crucial for ensuring a scale's validity across different cultural and demographic groups.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To assess the measurement invariance of the APAS, specifically its School Factors, Mother's Parenting Style, and Individual Factors subscales.
  • To determine if the APAS functions consistently across native Taiwanese children and children of immigrant families in Taiwan.

Main Methods:

  • Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was employed to evaluate the structural integrity of the APAS subscales.
  • Measurement invariance testing (configural, metric, and scalar) was conducted across three groups: urban native Taiwanese, rural native Taiwanese, and children with non-Taiwanese mothers.

Main Results:

  • The proposed factor structures for all three APAS subscales demonstrated acceptable fit across the studied groups.
  • Metric invariance was confirmed for the School Factors and Individual Factors subscales.
  • Partial metric invariance was achieved for the Mother's Parenting Style subscale, indicating some differences in factor loadings.

Conclusions:

  • The APAS demonstrates substantial cross-cultural generalizability, particularly for the School Factors and Individual Factors subscales.
  • The findings provide initial validity evidence for using the APAS in diverse Taiwanese populations.
  • Further refinement may be needed for the Mother's Parenting Style subscale to ensure full invariance.