Measuring school children’s attitudes toward immigrants in Switzerland and Poland

Table 4 SCFA models for attitudes toward Muslim immigrants modeled separately across age cohorts and countries (configural model) (with standardized factor loadings)

	CH-young	PL-young	CH-middle	PL-middle	CH-old	PL-old
Factor loadings
w1 muslim neighbor	0.869	0.865	0.875	0.879	0.882	0.917
w1 muslim friend	0.955	0.938	0.922	0.934	0.937	0.969
w1 muslim school	0.913	0.844	0.887	0.922	0.881	0.950
w1 muslim invite	0.886	0.841	0.870	0.892	0.873	0.944
w2 muslim neighbor	0.913	0.920	0.898	0.907	0.895	0.923
w2 muslim friend	0.943	0.932	0.938	0.950	0.947	0.968
w2 muslim school	0.935	0.917	0.890	0.936	0.874	0.951
w2 muslim invite	0.917	0.843	0.875	0.912	0.868	0.953
w3 muslim neighbor	0.929	0.923	0.922	0.909	0.890	0.939
w3 muslim friend	0.966	0.953	0.948	0.954	0.941	0.974
w3 muslim school	0.926	0.951	0.925	0.960	0.945	0.967
w3 muslim invite	0.922	0.873	0.903	0.924	0.923	0.950
Cronbach’s alpha
Items w1	0.947	0.926	0.937	0.948	0.940	0.971
Items w2	0.960	0.946	0.944	0.960	0.942	0.973
Items w3	0.965	0.959	0.959	0.966	0.959	0.978
Correlations among latent variables
w1 with w2	0.654	0.436	0.563	0.525	0.624	0.642
w1 with w3	0.674	0.431	0.387	0.422	0.548	0.537
w2 with w3	0.701	0.432	0.484	0.505	0.575	0.548
Global fit measures
CFI	0.970	0.993	0.999	0.995	0.990	0.998
RMSEA	0.086	0.036	0.019	0.032	0.048	0.023

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