Measuring attitudes towards ethnic minority patients: the revalidated REMP-3 instrument for graduate healthcare practitioners

Table 3 SEM Model₂₀₂₂ 2 and hypotheses Testing

	Latent	Observed	E	SE	z	p	ML
	TP
		EMP3_2	1.00				0.55
		EMP3_4	1.27	0.17	7.33	< 0.001	0.53
		EMP3_5	1.03	0.14	7.58	< 0.001	0.56
		EMP3_6	1.35	0.17	7.80	< 0.001	0.62
		EMP3_7	1.55	0.18	8.42	< 0.001	0.68
	BP
		EMP3_8	1.00				0.58
		EMP3_10	1.07	0.25	4.35	< 0.001	0.81
	PNC
		EMP3_17R	1.00				0.35
		EMP3_18R	1.13	0.35	3.25	0.001	0.43
		EMP3_3R	1.84	0.55	3.33	0.001	0.57
	REMP3
	TP		1.00				1.10
	BP		0.50	0.15	3.40	0.001	0.38
	PNC		0.39	0.12	3.18	0.001	0.57
Hypothesis	Dependent	Independent(s)	E	SE	z	p	ML
H1	REMP3
		MPQCE	0.03	0.01	3.94	< 0.001	0.24
		MPQFX	0.00	0.00	1.20	0.23	0.06
		MPQSI	-0.00	0.00	-0.71	0.48	-0.04
		MPQES	-0.01	0.00	-3.13	0.002	-0.18
		MPQOM	0.02	0.01	3.79	< 0.001	0.23
H2 & H3	CQ
		REMP3	12.39	3.15	3.94	< 0.001	0.30
		MPQCE	0.81	0.25	3.30	< 0.001	0.16
		MPQFX	-0.02	0.19	-0.20	0.84	-0.01
		MPQSI	-0.22	0.15	-1.54	0.12	-0.07
		MPQES	0.19	0.14	1.43	0.15	0.07
		MPQOM	1.57	0.21	7.62	< 0.001	0.37
H4	IOIC
		CQ	0.01	0.00	2.51	0.01	0.15
		REMP3	0.03	0.15	0.20	0.84	0.01
		MPQCE	-0.02	0.02	-1.21	0.23	-0.07
		MPQFX	-0.00	0.01	-0.38	0.70	-0.02
		MPQSI	-0.01	0.01	-0.65	0.52	-0.03
		MPQES	-0.00	0.01	-0.12	0.91	-0.01
		MPQOM	0.08	0.02	4.95	< 0.001	0.30

Note. (R)EMP-3 = (Revalidated) attitude towards Ethnic Minority Patients, TP = Task Perception, BP = Background Perception, PNC = Perceived Need for Communication, PPC = Physician – Patient Communication, MPQ = Multicultural Personality Questionnaire, CE = Cultural Empathy, FX = Flexibility, SI = Social Initiative, ES = Emotional Stability, OM = Open Mindedness, CQ = Cultural Intelligence, IOIC = Intensity Of Intercultural Contacts. The items are annotated using the numbers from Table 1. Items annotated with an R are scored reversely

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