ABSTRACT

The Utrecht-Management of Identity Commitments Scale (U-MICS) is one of the most-commonly used self-report scales to assess personal identity in studies of developmental processes. While it has been translated and validated in many countries around the world, evidence of its applicability in Greek is absent. The purpose of this study was to examine the factor structure of the Greek version of the U-MICS, and to test its measurement invariance across time and across ethnic groups living in Greece. Using data from 811 adolescents (M_age = 12.57, SD_age = 0.49 at Wave 1, 45.9% girls, 47.1% immigrant), Confirmatory Factor Analyses on the Greek U-MICS supported its well-established three-factor structure. Even though testing invariance of the educational U-MICS showed mixed results, the factor structure and the measurement properties of the interpersonal U-MICS were found to be comparable across ethnic groups, and across three years of junior high school. Finally, the bivariate associations of the three dimensions of the U-MICS with indices of adaptation (self-esteem, and emotional symptoms) partially supported the convergent validity of the scale. This study adds to the existing pool of studies supporting the applicability of the U-MICS in different languages and ethnic groups.

摘要

乌得勒支身份承诺管理量表 (U-MICS) 是最常用的自我报告量表之一，用于评估发展过程研究中的个人身份。尽管它已在世界上许多国家/地区进行翻译和验证，但缺乏其在希腊语中的适用性的证据。本研究的目的是检验希腊版 U-MICS 的因子结构，并测试其测量在不同时间和居住在希腊的种族之间的不变性。使用来自 811 名青少年的数据（M_年龄 = 12.57，SD_年龄） = 0.49 在第 1 波，45.9% 女孩，47.1% 移民），希腊 U-MICS 的验证性因素分析支持其完善的三因素结构。尽管教育 U-MICS 的测试不变性显示出不同的结果，但发现人际 U-MICS 的因子结构和测量特性在不同种族和三年初中具有可比性。最后，U-MICS 的三个维度与适应指数（自尊和情绪症状）的双变量关联部分支持了该量表的收敛效度。这项研究增加了支持 U-MICS 在不同语言和种族群体中的适用性的现有研究库。