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
- 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.
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