Academic Performance Antecedent Scale: validation with native and recent immigrant children.
This study aims to assess the measurement invariance of the three subscales of the newly developed Academic Performance Antecedent Scale (APAS)--School Factors, Mother's Parenting Style, and Individual Factors--across native and new immigrant children in Taiwan. The study sample comprised 527 Grade 4 students (M age = 10.4 yr., SD = 0.6), 263 boys and 264 girls. The three groups were urban and rural children of Taiwanese natives (n = 343, 65.1%), and 184 children with non-Taiwanese mothers (34.9%). The four-factor structure of the School Factors Subscale, the three-factor structure of the Mother's Parenting Style Subscale, and the five-factor structure of the Individual Factors Subscale all showed at least acceptable fit for the groups. In addition, metric invariance was confirmed for the School Factors and Individual Factors Subscales. Metric invariance was partially obtained for the Mother's Parenting Style Subscale. The findings provide validity evidences for cross-cultural generalizability of the APAS.
National Taiwan Normal University.
Ru-Jer
RJ
Wang
Kung-Bin
KB
Kuo
Chien-Ming
CM
Cheng
Pei-Jung
PJ
Hsieh
Han-Yu
HY
Wang
Ya-Wen
YW
Chang
Chia-Yi
CY
Shen
D002648:Child; D004521:Educational Measurement / Q000592:standards; D054242:Emigrants and Immigrants / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009035:Mothers / Q000523:psychology; D016487:Parenting / Q000523:psychology; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012574:Schools / Q000458:organization & administration*; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*; D013624:Taiwan / Q000208:ethnology