1. Measure invariance of Snyder's Dispositional Hope Scale in American and Chinese college students.
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Li, Zhihua, Mao, Xinjie, He, Zelin, Zhang, Bin, and Yin, Xiayun
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CHINESE people ,COLLEGE students ,CULTURE ,HOPE ,PSYCHOMETRICS ,RESEARCH methodology evaluation - Abstract
The original Snyder's Dispositional Hope Scale (DHS) was applied to 224 American college students and the Chinese version to 255 Chinese college students. Equivalence of the two DHS was tested, including configural invariance, metric invariance, and scalar invariance. The results demonstrated that the Snyder's DHS has measurement equivalence between Chinese and American college students; that is, the same psychological structure was measured in Chinese and American college samples. Therefore, cross‐cultural measurements of hope are valid. In addition, Chinese college students and American college students did not differ significantly on the Agency factor of the DHS whereas American students scored significantly higher than did Chinese college students on the Pathways factor. This dissimilarity may be explained by differences in the cultural backgrounds and education systems of the two countries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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