TY - JOUR
T1 - Measurement invariance of self-continuity strategies
T2 - Comparisons of early adolescents from Brazil, Canada and Colombia
AU - Santo, Jonathan Bruce
AU - da Cunha, Josafa
AU - Saldarriaga, Lina María
AU - Recchia, Holly E.
AU - Martin-Storey, Alexa
AU - Stella-Lopez, Luz
AU - Carmago, Gina
AU - Bukowski, William M.
N1 - Funding Information:
Correspondence should be addressed to Jonathan Bruce Santo, Psychology Department, University of Nebraska at Omaha, 6001 Dodge Street, Arts & Science Hall, Omaha, NE 68182, USA. E-mail: JSanto@unomaha.edu Work on this paper was supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the Canadian Institutes for Health Research.
PY - 2013/7
Y1 - 2013/7
N2 - Data from 655 early adolescents from three contexts (Curitiba, Brazil; Montreal, Canada and Barranquilla, Colombia) were used to test for measurement invariance in the constructs of essentialism and narrativism. These two different strategies have been proposed to explain the perceptions of stability of self-continuity over time. Essentialism predicates self-continuity on some fundamental, unchanging aspect of the self. In contrast, narrativism is an understanding of self-continuity as a result of one's cumulative experiences and decisions. Previous research using interview methods have found that these two strategies are mutually exclusive expressions of self-continuity. The current study sought to test this conceptualization using a questionnaire that assessed the underlying structural relation between essentialism and narrativism. The analyses supported a two factor model with measurement invariance across samples allowing for a comparison of mean differences across language and cultural barriers. As a whole, these findings highlight the need to examine developmental changes in warranting strategies for self-continuity.
AB - Data from 655 early adolescents from three contexts (Curitiba, Brazil; Montreal, Canada and Barranquilla, Colombia) were used to test for measurement invariance in the constructs of essentialism and narrativism. These two different strategies have been proposed to explain the perceptions of stability of self-continuity over time. Essentialism predicates self-continuity on some fundamental, unchanging aspect of the self. In contrast, narrativism is an understanding of self-continuity as a result of one's cumulative experiences and decisions. Previous research using interview methods have found that these two strategies are mutually exclusive expressions of self-continuity. The current study sought to test this conceptualization using a questionnaire that assessed the underlying structural relation between essentialism and narrativism. The analyses supported a two factor model with measurement invariance across samples allowing for a comparison of mean differences across language and cultural barriers. As a whole, these findings highlight the need to examine developmental changes in warranting strategies for self-continuity.
KW - Cross-cultural study
KW - Essentialism
KW - Multi-group comparison
KW - Narrativism
KW - Self-continuity
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U2 - 10.1080/17405629.2012.707313
DO - 10.1080/17405629.2012.707313
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84879155029
SN - 1740-5629
VL - 10
SP - 518
EP - 525
JO - European Journal of Developmental Psychology
JF - European Journal of Developmental Psychology
IS - 4
ER -