Scientific journal paper Q1
Measuring collective action intention toward gender equality across cultures
Tomasz Besta (Besta, T.); Paweł Jurek (Jurek, P. ); Michał Olech (Olech, M.); Anna Włodarczyk (Włodarczyk, A.); Natasza Kosakowska-Berezecka (Kosakowska-Berezecka, N.); Jennifer K. Bosson (Bosson, J. K.); Michael Bender (Bender, M.); Joseph A. Vandello (Vandello, J. A.); Sami Abuhamdeh (Abuhamdeh, S); Collins Badu Agyemang (Agyemang, C. B.); Gülçin Akbaş (Akbaş, G.); Nihan Albayrak-Aydemir (Albayrak-Aydemir, N.); Soline Ammirati (Ammirati, S.); Joel Anderson (Anderson, J.); Gulnaz Anjum (Anjum, G.); Amarina Ariyanto (Ariyanto, A.); John Jamir Benzon R. Aruta (Aruta, J. J. B. R. ); Mujeeba Ashraf (Ashraf, M.); Aistė Bakaitytė (Bakaitytė, A.); Maja Becker (Becker, M. ); Chiara Bertolli (Bertolli, C. ); Dashamir Bërxulli (Bërxulli, D. ); Deborah L. Best (Best, D. L. ); Chongzeng Bi (Bi, C. ); Katharina Block (Block, K. ); Mandy Boehnke (Boehnke, M. ); Renata Bongiorno (Bongiorno, R. ); Janine Bosak (Bosak, J.); Annalisa Casini (Casini, A. ); Qingwei Chen (Chen, Q. ); Peilian Chi (Chi, P. ); Vera Cubela Adoric (Adoric, V. C. ); Serena Daalmans (Daalmans, S. ); Justine Dandy (Dandy, J. ); Soledad de Lemus (de Lemus, S. ); Sandesh Dhakal (Dhakal, S.); Nikolay Dvorianchikov (Dvorianchikov, N.); Sonoko Egami (Egami, S.); Edgardo Etchezahar (Etchezahar, E.); Carla Esteves (Esteves, C.); Laura Froehlich (Froehlich, L. ); Efrain Garcia–Sanchez (Garcia–Sanchez, E. ); Alin Gavreliuc (Gavreliuc, A. ); Dana Gavreliuc (Gavreliuc, D. ); Ángel Gómez (Gómez, A. ); Francesca Guizzo (Guizzo, F. ); Sylvie Graf (Graf, S. ); Hedy Greijdanus (Greijdanus, H. ); Ani Grigoryan (Grigoryan, A. ); Joanna Grzymała-Moszczyńska (Grzymała-Moszczyńska, J. ); Keltouma Guerch (Guerch, K. ); Marie Gustafsson Sendén (Sendén, M. 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Abstract
Collective action is a powerful tool for social change and is fundamental to women and girls’ empowerment on a societal level. Collective action towards gender equality could be understood as intentional and conscious civic behaviors focused on social transformation, questioning power relations, and promoting gender equality through collective efforts. Various instruments to measure collective action intentions have been developed, but to our knowledge none of the published measures were subject to invariance testing. We introduce the gender equality collective action intention (GECAI) scale and examine its psychometric isomorphism and measurement invariance, using data from 60 countries (N = 31,686). Our findings indicate that partial scalar measurement invariance of the GECAI scale permits conditional comparisons of latent mean GECAI scores across countries. Moreover, this metric psychometric isomorphism of the GECAI means we can interpret scores at the country-level (i.e., as a group attribute) conceptually similar to individual attributes. Therefore, our findings add to the growing body of literature on gender based collective action by introducing a methodologically sound tool to measure collective action intentions towards gender equality across cultures
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Keywords
Collective action,Gender equality,isomorphism,measurement invariance,cross-cultural psychology
  • Psychology - Social Sciences
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Funding Reference Funding Entity
2017–00414 Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life, and Welfare
ERC–2016–COG 725128 European Research Council
PSI2016–79971–P Spanish Min- istry of Economy and Competitiveness
ES/S00274X/1 Economic and Social Research Council
DPI/DIRPE n. 04/2019 University of Brasilia
2017/26/M/HS6/00360 National Science Centre in Poland
RVO: 68081740 Institute of Psychology, Czech Academy of Science
20–01214S Czech Science Foundation
RTI2018–093550–B–I00 Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia
RL5GM118963 National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health