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European Journal of Psychological Assessment
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English
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United States of America
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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
Fields of Science and Technology Classification
- Psychology - Social Sciences
Funding Records
| 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 |
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