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Table 5 SCFA models for attitudes toward black immigrants modeled separately across age cohorts and countries (configural model) (with standardized factor loadings)

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

 

CH-young

PL-young

CH-middle

PL-middle

CH-old

PL-old

Factor loadings

 w1 black neighbor

0.870

0.855

0.863

0.863

0.870

0.866

 w1 black friend

0.934

0.912

0.914

0.934

0.916

0.952

 w1 black school

0.899

0.898

0.867

0.904

0.809

0.938

 w1 black invite

0.880

0.797

0.857

0.853

0.848

0.927

 w2 black neighbor

0.876

0.920

0.889

0.893

0.882

0.897

 w2 black friend

0.924

0.939

0.913

0.921

0.915

0.941

 w2 black school

0.927

0.912

0.856

0.909

0.868

0.942

 w2 black invite

0.876

0.832

0.864

0.857

0.869

0.923

 w3 black neighbor

0.906

0.869

0.913

0.914

0.887

0.887

 w3 black friend

0.936

0.941

0.954

0.946

0.937

0.960

 w3 black school

0.954

0.925

0.918

0.936

0.876

0.961

 w3 black invite

0.893

0.834

0.862

0.906

0.945

0.925

Cronbach’s alpha

 Items w1

0.942

0.922

0.928

0.937

0.918

0.957

 Items w2

0.945

0.944

0.931

0.941

0.933

0.960

 Items w3

0.958

0.939

0.951

0.960

0.950

0.964

Correlations among latent variables

 w1 with w2

0.536

0.452

0.568

0.399

0.602

0.585

 w1 with w3

0.584

0.281

0.397

0.398

0.505

0.442

 w2 with w3

0.709

0.415

0.470

0.376

0.541

0.403

Global fit measures

 CFI

0.973

1

0.992

0.993

0.993

0.994

 RMSEA

0.076

0

0.045

0.034

0.038

0.034

  1. CFI comparative fit index, RMSEA root mean square error of approximation