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Factorial Invariance, Scale Reliability, and Construct Validity of the Job Control and Job Demands Scales for Immigrant Workers: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis.
- Source :
- Journal of Immigrant & Minority Health; Jun2011, Vol. 13 Issue 3, p533-540, 8p
- Publication Year :
- 2011
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Abstract
- Immigrants have a different social context from those who stay in their home country or those who were born to the country that immigrants now live. Cultural theory of risk perception suggests that social context influences one's interpretation of questionnaire items. We examined psychometric properties of job control and job demand scales with US- and foreign-born workers who preferred English, Spanish, or Chinese ( n = 3,114, mean age = 58.1). Across all groups, the job control scale had acceptable Cronbach's alpha (0.78-0.83) and equivalent factor loadings (ΔCFI < 0.01). Immigrants had low alpha (0.42-0.65) for the job demands scale regardless of language, education, or age of migration. Two job-demand items had different factor loadings across groups. Among immigrants, both scales had inconsistent associations with perceived job stress and self-rated health. For a better understanding of immigrants' job stress, the concept of job demands should be expanded and immigrants' expectations for job control explored. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- ACCULTURATION
ANALYSIS of variance
BLACK people
CHI-squared test
CHINESE people
CONCEPTUAL structures
CORONARY disease
STATISTICAL correlation
ETHNIC groups
FACTOR analysis
GOODNESS-of-fit tests
HEALTH attitudes
HISPANIC Americans
IMMIGRANTS
JOB stress
RELIABILITY (Personality trait)
RESEARCH evaluation
RESEARCH funding
TRANSLATIONS
WHITE people
EMPLOYEES' workload
SECONDARY analysis
MULTITRAIT multimethod techniques
RESEARCH methodology evaluation
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 15571912
- Volume :
- 13
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Immigrant & Minority Health
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 104893380
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s10903-010-9364-2