Development and validation of the Australian Aboriginal racial identity and self-esteem survey for 8–12 year old children (IRISE_C)

Table 7 Confirmatory factor analysis salience – racial identity

Salience - racial identity	Item loadings^a λ_x	Model characteristics
Q6. How important is it for you to play with Aboriginal kids?	0.78	N = 191
	0.78	df = 20
Q10. How important is it for you that you’re Aboriginal?	0.71	χ ² = 21.10
Q12. How important is it for you to be the same as other Aboriginal kids?	0.72	SRMR = 0.0557
	0.72	NNFI = 0.999
Q16. How important is it for you to feel part of the Aboriginal group at school?	0.78	Acceptable
Q24. How important is it for you to have Aboriginal people as friends?	0.86
Q29. How important is it for you to be proud of being Aboriginal?	0.78
Q31. How important is it that Aboriginal kids help each other?	0.68
Q34. How important is it for you to like the Aboriginal flag?	0.74

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