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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Couns Psychol. 2013 Nov 4;61(1):154–161. doi: 10.1037/a0034749

Table 2.

CFA parameter estimates, means, standard deviations, and Cronbach’s alphas for the MEIM-R in the GEM trial analytic sample

Group CFA completely standardized parameter
estimatesa
Exploration
Commitment
Exploration subscale
Commitment subscale
Overall scale
n A E1 E4 E5 C2 C3 C6 M (SD) α M (SD) α M (SD) α
Entire sample 1,463 .76 .60 .93 .81 .86 .84 .89 3.13 (0.95) .82 3.68 (0.91) .90 3.41 (0.83) .88

Asian 630 .71 .47 .92 .77 .88 .85 .84 3.37 (0.83) .76 3.94 (0.79) .89 3.65 (0.71) .85
  Chinese 168 .70 .28 .98 .72 .95 .86 .85 3.21 (0.78) .69 3.81 (0.89) .91 3.51 (0.72) .83
  Filipina 165 .66 .40 .96 .62 .85 .84 .79 3.55 (0.78) .71 4.16 (0.67) .86 3.85 (0.61) .79
  South Asian 144 .70 .59 .88 .86 .78 .79 .83 3.27 (0.92) .81 3.84 (0.81) .84 3.56 (0.77) .86
Black/African American 58 .56 .59 .84 .95 .81 .78 .93 3.36 (0.97) .80 4.04 (0.85) .87 3.70 (0.78) .83
Hispanic 240 .78 .67 .89 .81 .77 .79 .88 3.10 (0.98) .84 3.73 (0.89) .86 3.41 (0.85) .88
Multiethnic 160 .80 .72 .97 .79 .85 .83 .90 2.98 (1.04) .87 3.27 (0.92) .89 3.13 (0.90) .91
White 375 .72 .65 .91 .82 .88 .81 .90 2.78 (0.95) .83 3.33 (0.93) .90 3.06 (0.84) .88

Note. Means and standard deviations represent observed scores.

a

Labels correspond to paths in Figure 1.