Measure invariance of Snyder's Dispositional Hope Scale in American and Chinese college students

作者：Li, Zhihua; Mao, Xinjie; He, Zelin; Zhang, Bin^*; Yin, Xiayun

来源：Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 2018, 21(4): 263-270.

DOI：10.1111/ajsp.12332

• college students
• cross-cultural
• Dispositional Hope Scale
• measurement equivalence

The original Snyder's Dispositional Hope Scale (DHS) was applied to 224 American college students and the Chinese version to 255 Chinese college students. Equivalence of the two DHS was tested, including configural invariance, metric invariance, and scalar invariance. The results demonstrated that the Snyder's DHS has measurement equivalence between Chinese and American college students; that is, the same psychological structure was measured in Chinese and American college samples. Therefore, cross-cultural measurements of hope are valid. In addition, Chinese college students and American college students did not differ significantly on the Agency factor of the DHS whereas American students scored significantly higher than did Chinese college students on the Pathways factor. This dissimilarity may be explained by differences in the cultural backgrounds and education systems of the two countries.

• 出版日期2018-12
• 单位湖南农业大学; 湖南中医药大学; 湖南科技大学