The Bicultural Identity Integration Scale (BIIS-2) and the Multicultural Identity Styles Scale (MISS) were designed to assess different aspects of bicultural identity. The BIIS-2 captures characteristics of a bicultural identity in the domains of affect (harmony vs. conflict) and cognition (blendedness vs. compartmentalization). The MISS measures 2 distinct strategies (hybrid and alternating identity styles) used to achieve and maintain a bicultural identity. The aims of the present study were to investigate the factor structures of MISS and BIIS-2 scores using confirmatory factor analysis and to examine potential construct overlap between the 2 measures using exploratory structural equation modeling. Measures were administered twice (11 days apart) to a sample of 836 Hispanic young adults in the United States. Confirmatory factor analytic results supported the 2-factor structure of the MISS. The BIIS-2 items patterned onto 4 factors: harmony, conflict, blendedness, and compartmentalization. Configural, metric, and scalar equivalence of the factor structures of both measures were established across time. The exploratory structural equation modeling indicated no salient cross-loadings between the MISS and the BIIS-2 subscales, and this independence was consistent across time. Interfactor correlations indicated a strong, positive relationship between the hybrid identity style and BII-blendedness subscales. Scores on the alternating identity style subscale were positively related to the BII-conflict, BII-compartmentalization, and BII-blendedness subscales. Overall, findings provide evidence for the construct validity of the MISS and its empirical distinctiveness from the BIIS-2 and suggest a 4-factor structure for the BIIS-2. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).

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测试多元文化认同风格量表（MISS）和双文化认同整合量表（BIIS-2）的结构效度和经验独特性。

《双文化身份整合量表》（BIIS-2）和《多文化身份风格量表》（MISS）旨在评估双文化身份的不同方面。BIIS-2在情感（和谐与冲突）和认知（融合与隔离）领域捕获了双重文化身份的特征。MISS测量了两种不同的策略（混合和交替使用的身份样式），以实现和维持双文化身份。本研究的目的是使用验证性因子分析研究MISS和BIIS-2分数的因子结构，并使用探索性结构方程模型研究这两个量度之间潜在的结构重叠。对美国的836名西班牙裔年轻人进行了两次测量（相隔11天）。验证性因子分析结果支持MISS的2因子结构。BIIS-2项目的模式分为4个因素：和谐，冲突，融合和隔离。跨时间建立了这两种度量的因素结构的配置，度量和标量等价关系。探索性结构方程模型表明，MISS和BIIS-2子量表之间没有明显的交叉荷载，并且这种独立性在时间上是一致的。因子间的相关性表明混合身份风格与BII混合性分量表之间存在牢固的正相关关系。交替身份风格子量表的分数与BII冲突，BII隔间化和BII混合性子量表呈正相关。总体，研究结果为MISS的构建有效性及其与BIIS-2的经验区别提供了证据，并为BIIS-2提出了四因子结构。（PsycInfo数据库记录（c）2020 APA，保留所有权利）。