黑人移民及其子女在美国黑人人口中所占的比例很大，而且还在不断增长；然而，他们对多方面身份的体验往往会崩溃成多代黑人青年的体验。当前的研究调查了具有移民父母的黑人青年和仅有美国出生父母的黑人青年的广义种族认同措施是否等效。参与者是在美国两个地区的不同高中就读的767名黑人青少年（16.6％移民来源；Mage=16.28，SD=1.12）参与者完成了确认，探索,和民族认同量表简编(EIS-B)的分辨率分量表，以及黑人身份-青少年多维清单(MIBI-T)的中心性和公众关注分量表。结果表明,而EIS-B表现出标量不变性，MIBI-T证明了部分标量不变性。计量错误的会计处理，移民裔青年的肯定程度低于多代美国裔青年。跨群体,种族认同探索和解决分数与家庭种族社会化呈正相关；种族认同肯定与自尊呈正相关；种族认同公众关注与种族种族歧视呈负相关，支持收敛有效性。相反，中心性与多代美国裔黑人青年的歧视呈正相关，但这种关系在移民黑人青年中并不显著。这些结果填补了文献中的方法论空白，为研究人员提供经验支持，以考虑是否在有关种族认同的分析中汇集移民血统和多代美国血统的黑人青年。
Black immigrants and their children represent a significant and growing share of the U.S. Black population; however, their experiences of their multifaceted identities are often collapsed into the experiences of multigenerational Black youth. The current study investigates whether generalized ethnic-racial identity measures are equivalent for Black youth with an immigrant parent and Black youth with only U.S.-born parents. Participants were 767 Black adolescents (16.6% immigrant-origin; Mage = 16.28, SD = 1.12) attending diverse high schools in two regions of the U.S. Participants completed the affirmation, exploration, and resolution subscales of the Ethnic Identity Scale-Brief (EIS-B), along with the centrality and public regard subscales of the Multidimensional Inventory of Black Identity-Teen (MIBI-T). The results indicated that, whereas the EIS-B demonstrated scalar invariance, the MIBI-T demonstrated partial scalar invariance. Accounting for measurement error, immigrant-origin youth reported lower affirmation than multigenerational U.S.-origin youth. Across groups, ethnic-racial identity exploration and resolution scores were positively associated with family ethnic socialization; ethnic-racial identity affirmation was positively associated with self-esteem; and ethnic-racial identity public regard was negatively associated with ethnic-racial discrimination, supporting convergent validity. Conversely, centrality was positively associated with discrimination among multigenerational U.S.-origin Black youth, but the relation was not significant among immigrant-origin Black youth. These results fill a methodological gap in the literature, providing researchers with empirical support for considering whether to pool immigrant-origin and multigenerational U.S.-origin Black youth in analyses regarding ethnic-racial identity.
