This study investigated the factor structure of the Self-construal Scale, an important measure of interdependent and independent self-construal. An exploratory factor analysis with the principal component method and varimax rotation supported Singelis' original two-factor model (1994) for a sample of 152 Vietnamese-American high school adolescents recruited from Little Saigon in Orange County, California. Implications for the conceptualization of self-construal and issues in research are discussed.
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