APS

2025 APS Annual Convention · 2025

A Psychometric Evaluation of the Color-Blind Racial Attitudes Scale: Dimensionality and Differential Item Functioning By Race and Gender

Washington, DC · May 2025

Poster · Social

  • Alex Ajayi
    University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
  • Jesus Delgado
    University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
  • Gisel Suarez Bonilla
    Augsburg University
  • Moin Syed
    University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Abstract

We examined the psychometric properties of the Color-Blind Racial Attitudes Scale using item response theory and multigroup confirmatory factor analysis in 4 samples (N = 4010). Results supported a bifactor structure. Invariance held across gender but not race, revealing differential item functioning, particularly between Black and White participants.

Cultural Diversity

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