Measurement invariance of the World Assumptions Questionnaire across race/ethnic group, sex, and sexual orientation.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The World Assumptions Questionnaire (WAQ) was developed to assess optimism and assumptions about the world, which often shift after traumatic events. However, no known study has investigated whether the WAQ holds similar meaning across demographic groups. The objective of this study was to investigate measurement invariance of the WAQ across race/ethnic group, sex, and sexual orientation.

Method

Participants consisted of 1,181 college students (75% female; 25% Black, 13% Latinx, 18% Asian, 45% White; 90% heterosexual) who completed an online survey on stress, personality, substance use, and mental health. We investigated a unidimensional and the 4-factor structure of the WAQ using confirmatory factor analysis, and configural, metric, and scalar invariance using mul

SUBMITTER: Haeny AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8805146 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature