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Establishing the psychometric properties of constructs from the conceptual ‘Settlement Services Literacy’ framework and their relationship with migrants’ acculturative stress in Australia

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  • Andre M N Renzaho
  • Michael J Polonsky
  • Ahmed Ferdous
  • Adnan Yusuf
  • Julianne Abood
  • Bukola Oladunni Salami
  • Kerry Woodward
  • Julie Green

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Background: Effective migration often requires supports for new arrivals, referred to as settlement services. Settlement services literacy (SSL) is key to ensuring new migrants have the capability to access and utilise the information and services designed to support the resettlement process and achieve positive settlement outcomes. To date, however, no research has sought to empirically validate measures of SSL or to assess individual migrants’ levels of SSL. The aim of this study was to establish the psychometric properties of constructs from the conceptual SSL framework. Design: Using a snowball sampling approach, trained multilingual research assistants collected data on 653 participants. The total sample was randomly divided into two split-half samples: one for the exploratory factor analysis (EFA; N = 324) and the other for the confirmatory factor analysis (CFA; N = 329) and scale validation. The final SSL scale included 30 questions. The full data set was used to test the nomological validity of the scale regarding whether the components of SSL impact on migrants’ level of acculturative stress. Results: The EFA yielded five factors: knowledge (eight items, α = 0.88), empowerment (five items, α = 0.89), competence (four items, α = 0.86), community influence (four items, α = 0.82), and political (two items, α = 0.81). In the CFA, the initial model demonstrated a poor to marginal fit model. Its re-specification by examining modification indices resulted in a good model fit: CMIN/DF = 3.07, comparative fit index = 0.92, root mean square error of approximation = 0.08 and standardised root mean square residual = 0.07, which are consistent with recommendations. All the path coefficients between the second-order construct (SSL) and its five dimensions (knowledge, empowerment, competence, community influence and political) were significant at an α = .05 level, giving evidence for the validity of different SSL dimensions. We found that SSL is significantly related to migrants’ acculturative stress (β = - 0.39, p

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  • Andre M N Renzaho & Michael J Polonsky & Ahmed Ferdous & Adnan Yusuf & Julianne Abood & Bukola Oladunni Salami & Kerry Woodward & Julie Green, 2022. "Establishing the psychometric properties of constructs from the conceptual ‘Settlement Services Literacy’ framework and their relationship with migrants’ acculturative stress in Australia," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 17(4), pages 1-20, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0266200
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0266200
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    1. Mambo Tabu Masinda, 2014. "Immigrant Settlement Services Literacy," International Journal of Social Work, Macrothink Institute, vol. 1(2), pages 1-13, December.
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