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

Table 4 Confirmatory factor analysis knowledge – Aboriginal culture

Knowledge – Aboriginal culture	Item loadings^a λ_x	Model characteristics
Q1. How much do you know about how Aboriginal people lived in the old days?	0.57	N = 195^b
	0.57	df = 27^c
Q3. How much do you know about Aboriginal Week activities?	0.51	χ ² = 27.15^d
Q7. How much have you learned to make Aboriginal foods like damper?	0.74	SRMR^e = 0.0434
	0.74	NNFI^f = 1.00
Q13. How much do you know about Aboriginal stories of the Dreaming (Dreamtime)?	0.65	Good
Q17. How much do you talk Aboriginal words?	0.67
Q19. How much does your family tell you about being Aboriginal?	0.69
Q35. How much do you go bush with your family?	0.67
Q37. How much have you eaten Aboriginal foods, like kangaroo?	0.79
Q39. How much do you know about the dances Aboriginal people did in the old days?	0.81

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