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The purpose of this study was to examine the measurement invariance of Taylor and Kaufman's (2021) Creative Trait Motivation Scales (CTMS) to determine if they measure the same attributes when applied to high school and college students majoring in dance, and to analyze latent mean differences between groups on the subscales. For this purpose, 842 students (412 high school students, 430 college students) majoring in dance participated in the survey. The data were processed using descriptive statistics, confirmatory factor analysis, correlation analysis, internal consistency analysis, one-way multivariate analysis, and multi-group confirmatory factor analysis. The results of analyzing the measurement invariance and latent mean differences between the two groups for the three-factor, 20-item creative trait motivation measurement model are as follows. First, the overall measurement model was evaluated as having a valid factor structure for measuring the creative trait motivation of dance majors (²=2083.52, df=167, p=.001, TLI= .923, CFI=.944, RMSEA=.078). Second, the factor structure (configural invariance) and structural coefficients between high school and college students were the same (metric invariance), but the intercept (scalar invariance) and covariance (factor variance and covariance invariance) were somewhat different be tween the two groups. Third, among the three subscales, the latent means of intrinsic motivation do not differ between the two groups, but the latent means of extrinsic motivation and apathy are somewhat higher for college students than for high school students. These results show that the Korean version of the scale can be used to assess the creative trait motivation of high school and college students majoring in dance.
Hye-Joo Chang (Fri,) studied this question.