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Cultural identity development in adult forced migrants: The psychometrics of a measure in Arabic, Spanish, and Ukrainian

2025· article· en· W4406061628 on OpenAlexafffundabout
Débora B. Maehler, Nivedita Bhaktha, Steffen Pötzschke, Howard Ramos

Bibliographic record

VenueInternational Journal of Intercultural Relations · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldPsychology
TopicMigration, Health and Trauma
Canadian institutionsWestern University
FundersSocial Sciences and Humanities Research Council of CanadaMeta
KeywordsUkrainianArabicIdentity (music)PsychometricsPsychologyMeasure (data warehouse)Social psychologyDevelopmental psychologyLinguisticsComputer science

Abstract

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The aim of the present study was to assess the psychometric equivalence of Arabic-, Spanish-, and Ukrainian-language versions of the Multigroup Ethnic and National Identity Measure (MENI), a measure of cultural identity development comprised of an ethic identity and a national identity scale. The psychometric properties of the three language versions were examined and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was conducted to evaluate model fit and test measurement invariance in a sample of adult forced migrants from Syria, Mexico, and Ukraine living in Canada ( N = 616). Multigroup CFA provided support for scalar invariance of the ethnic identity scale, allowing meaningful comparisons across the three cultural/language groups. However, the national identity scale demonstrated only configural invariance, suggesting that, although the general structure was consistent, the strength and patterns of relationships differed across groups. The construct and criterion validity of both scales were adequate for assessing identification with the country of origin and the residence country across the three language groups. Based on these findings, we conclude that future research can use the Arabic-, Spanish-, and Ukrainian-language versions of the MENI to assess and compare cultural identity development across these cultural/language groups of adult (forced) migrants, derive identity statuses, and extract acculturation profiles.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.393
Threshold uncertainty score0.631

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.025
GPT teacher head0.364
Teacher spread0.339 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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