title: Multicultural personality questionnaire: development of a short form.
abstract: This study reports on the development of the Multicultural Personality Questionnaire-Short Form among 511 participants. Using a split-sample scale validation design, Study 1 (N = 260) employed a principal component analysis and rigorous item selection criteria to extract a 40-item short form (MPQ-SF) from the original 91-item Multicultural Personality Questionnaire (MPQ; van der Zee & van Oudenhoven, 2000, 2001). In Study 2 (N = 251), the MPQ-SF was subjected to confirmatory factor analysis and resulted in a reasonably good fit to the data (comparative fit index = .94; root mean squared error of approximation = .066). Satisfactory coefficient alphas and high correlations with the original scales were found. Moreover, relationships with related scales were largely in the predicted direction. Specific directions for follow-up research are posited.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences, University of Groningen, The Netherlands. K.I.vanOudenhoven-vanderZee@utwente.nl
authors.forename: Karen
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: van der Zee
authors.forename: Jan Pieter
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: van Oudenhoven
authors.forename: Joseph G
authors.initials: JG
authors.lastname: Ponterotto
authors.forename: Alexander W
authors.initials: AW
authors.lastname: Fietzer
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D054521:Cultural Competency; D018864:Cultural Diversity; D056348:Emotional Intelligence; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010555:Personality Inventory; D025341:Principal Component Analysis; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D014481:United States; D055815:Young Adult