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

Table 5 SCFA models for attitudes toward black 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 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

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