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

Table 6 Confirmatory factor analysis salience – Aboriginal culture

Salience – Aboriginal culture	Item loadings^a λ_x	Model characteristics
Q2. How important is it for you to know about how Aboriginal people lived in the old days?	0.62	N = 188
	0.62	df = 27
Q4. How important is it that you to do activities for Aboriginal Week?	0.64	χ ² = 46.15
Q8. How important is it for you to make Aboriginal foods like damper?	0.78	SRMR = 0.0613
	0.78	NNFI = 0.985
Q14. How important is it for you to know about Aboriginal stories of the Dreaming?	0.78	Acceptable
Q18. How important is it for you to talk Aboriginal words?	0.73
Q20. How important is it for you that your family tells you about being Aboriginal?	0.70
Q36. How important is it for you to go bush with your family?	0.66
Q38. How important is it for you to eat Aboriginal foods?	0.68
Q40. How important is it for you to know about the dances Aboriginal people did in the old days?	0.82

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