最近的性别规范尺度表现如何? 在埃塞俄比亚和孟加拉国青少年中进行探索性因子分析
Anita Alaze1, John Grosser2, Oliver Razum1
1Department of Epidemiology and International Public Health, School of Public Health, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany.
PLOS global public health
|October 16, 2025
概括
这项研究适应了埃塞俄比亚和孟加拉国青少年的性别规范尺度. 五个领域的结构显示出更多的希望比个人-社区的区别来衡量性别态度和规范.
科学领域:
- 青少年健康 青少年健康
- 社会学 社会学 社会学
- 心理测量 心理测量 心理测量
背景情况:
- 不公平的性别规范对青少年发育和成人健康结果产生重大影响.
- 对于青少年性别规范的可靠测量工具存在关键差距.
- 性别与青少年:全球证据 (GAGE) 项目开发了一种尺度,用于测量脆弱青少年 (10-19岁) 的性别规范.
研究的目的:
- 为了验证GAGE性别规范尺度的拟议的两因素 (个人-社区) 和五因素 (基于领域) 结构.
- 评估尺度结构在埃塞俄比亚和孟加拉国环境中的适用性.
- 根据经验发现,提出GAGE性别规范尺度的适应版本.
主要方法:
- 使用主要轴因子和斜旋转的探索性因子分析 (EFA) 在埃塞俄比亚 (n=6,183) 和孟加拉国 (n=2,245) 的GAGE数据集上进行.
- 用巴特莱特球状性测试和凯泽-梅耶-奥尔金测量来测试采样充分性.
- 缩量精细化涉及删除具有不足因子负载,交叉负载或低共同性的变量.
主要成果:
- 五因素结构在两个数据集中都显示出比两因素结构更好的匹配.
- 五个因素结构的改进导致了更少的项目 (17在埃塞俄比亚,15在孟加拉国).
- 五个领域的结构在上下文上比个人-社区区分更合适,尽管减少了项目.
结论:
- 对埃塞俄比亚和孟加拉国青少年来说,GAGE性别规范尺度的五个领域结构是一个更适合的框架,而不是个人-社区区分.
- 适应规模是必要的,特别是关于项目选择和域定义,对于这些特定的背景.
- 建议使用确认因素分析进行进一步的细化和验证,以增强尺度的心理特征.
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