Multigroup Ethnic Identity Measure: factorial structrure in Ukrainian immigrants in western Europe

• Dolores Frias-Navarro Director of the Research Unit: “Diseño y Análisis de Psicología Aplicada”, Universidad de Valencia. España.
• Yanina Botvyn Universidad de Valencia, España
• Marcos Pascual-Soler ESIC–Business & Marketing School, España
• Jose Berrios-Riquelme. Departamento de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de Tarapacá. Iquique-Chile

Palabras clave: factorial invariance, psychometric properties, confirmatory factor analysis, internal consistency

Resumen

The objective of this study is to evaluate the factorial structure of the Multigroup Ethnic
Identity Measure on Ukrainians immigrants in two countries of Occidental Europe. The
factorial structure was put to test with a confirmatory factorial analysis and with the factorial
invariance between the samples of both countries. The results indicate that the twodimensional
structure has a better adjustment than the one-dimensional, two dimensions have
a good internal consistency and they are directly correlated. The factorial invariance between
both countries has also been proved. It is concluded that the measure presents a twodimension
structure and suggestions for future investigations are proposed.