title: Assessing the invariance of smoking-related self-efficacy, beliefs, and intention among high school current smokers.
abstract: Measures of correlates of youth smoking should be invariant. We examined the measurement invariance of smoking-related self-efficacy, beliefs, and intention across gender, race (White vs. Black), ethnicity (non-Hispanic vs. Hispanic), and grade level (9th/10th vs. 11th/12th grade) for 2767 high school current smokers. Strong factorial invariance was found in the factors across gender (NNFI:0.959; CFI:0.959; RMSEA:0.085), grade (NNFI:0.962; CFI:0.962; RMSEA: 0.079), race (NNFI: 0.967; CFI: 0.967; RMSEA: 0.074), and ethnicity (NNFI: 0.965; CFI: 0.965; RMSEA: 0.078). Smoking-related self-efficacy, beliefs, and intention measures may be confidently used to understand attitudinal differences across gender, race, ethnicity, and grade level for youth smokers.
authors: Institute of Public Health, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia 30303, USA. ksterling@gsu.edu
authors: Kymberle
authors: K
authors: Sterling
authors: Kentya
authors: K
authors: Ford
authors: Haesuk
authors: H
authors: Park
authors: Pamela
authors: P
authors: Diamond
authors: Alfred
authors: A
authors: McAlister
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior / Q000523:psychology; D001741:Black or African American; D003469:Culture; D005260:Female; D006630:Hispanic or Latino; D006801:Humans; D033182:Intention; D008297:Male; D011594:Psychometrics; D012574:Schools; D020377:Self Efficacy; D012907:Smoking / Q000208:ethnology / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D044465:White People