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Psychology: Research and Review

Table 1 Demographic characteristics by sample

From: Factorial validity and measurement invariance of the Psychosocial Uncertainty Scale

 

Gender

Sociocultural levels (SCL)

Group of origin

Age

Male

Female

Lower

Middle

Upper

Students

Active professionals

 

Complete sample (N = 1596)

468 (29.3%)

1128 (70.7%)

576 (36.1%)

318 (19.9%)

702 (44.0%)

888 (55.6%)

708 (44.4%)

26.88 (8.61)

EFA (Sample 1) (N = 827)

255 (30.8%)

572 (69.2%)

310 (37.5%)

162 (19.6%)

355 (42.9%)

475 (57.4%)

352 (42.6%)

27.21 (9.14)

CFA1 (Sample 2) (N = 382)

121 (31.7%)

261 (68.3%)

126 (33%)

76 (19.9%)

180 (47.1%)

194 (50.8%)

188 (49.2%)

26.67 (8.2)

CFA2 (Sample 3) (N = 387)

92 (23.8%)

295 (76.2%)

140 (36.2%)

80 (20.7%)

167 (43.2%)

219 (56.6%)

168 (43.4%)

26.35 (7.77)

Sample Comparison X2 (df)

7.68 (2)

2.75 (4)

4.87 (2)

Anova for age: F(2, 1573) = 1.44, p = .237, η2  =.002

There are no differences between samples in terms of age

Sample Comparison p value

.02

.60

.09

  1. Gender; sociocultural status and group of origin characterised by n and (%); age characterized as M (SD)