Date of Award
2025
Degree Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy in Behavioral Science
Specialization
Behavioral Sciences
Department
Psychology
First Advisor
Joseph S. Rossi
Abstract
Adult attachment along with stress perceptions may explain emerging adult health outcomes, including health disparities for some minoritized intersectional race/ethnicity and gender groups. However, exploration of intersectional measurement differences is often neglected. This three-part study used a variable centered latent modeling approach, applying a quantitative intersectionality approach to assess measurement models of two widely used scales: Adult Attachment and Perceived Stress in a sample of 1,187 emerging adults from six intersectional race/ethnicity and gender groups. Traditional characterizations of adult attachment factor structure did not hold in this diverse sample, and differential item functioning was seen in minoritized groups along with variations in structural associations according to minoritized intersectional race/ethnicity and gender groups, including likely moderation by acculturation for one minoritized intersectional group. Emerging adult health may be improved by way of contextualized factor structure of adult attachment along with use of unbased measures in health research.
Recommended Citation
Sutherland Charvis, Jodi, "LATENT MEASUREMENT OF ADULT ATTACHMENT AND PERCEIVED STRESS BY INTERSECTIONAL RACE/ETHNICITY AND GENDER" (2025). Open Access Dissertations. Paper 4473.
https://digitalcommons.uri.edu/oa_diss/4473