%0 Journal Article
%T Emotional Availability Scale Among Three U.S. Race/Ethnic Groups
%A Della J. Derscheid
%A Kathleen R. Delaney
%A Louis F. Fogg
%A Mary E. Johnson
%A Sharon Tucker
%A Wrenetha Julion
%J Western Journal of Nursing Research
%@ 1552-8456
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/0193945918776617
%X This study used a cross-sectional design to conduct a subgroup psychometric analysis of the Emotional Availability Scale among matched Hispanic (n = 20), African American (n = 20), and European American (n = 10) English-speaking mother¨Cchild dyads in the United States. Differences by race/ethnicity were tested (p < .05) among (a) Emotional Availability Scale dimensions with ANOVA, and (b) relationships of Emotional Availability Scale dimensions with select Dyadic Parent¨CChild Interaction Coding System variables with Pearson correlation and matched moderated regression. Internal consistency was .950 (Cronbach¡¯s ¦Á; N = 50). No significant differences in the six Emotional Availability Scale dimension scores by race/ethnicity emerged. Two Dyadic Parent¨CChild Interaction Coding System behaviors predicted two Emotional Availability Scale dimensions each for Hispanic and African American mother¨Cchild dyads. Results suggest emotional availability similarity among race/ethnic subgroups with few predictive differences of emotional availability dimensions by specific behaviors for Hispanic and African American subgroups
%K subgroup comparison
%K psychometric analysis
%K emotional availability
%K Emotional Availability Scale
%K Hispanic
%K African American
%K European American
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0193945918776617