Abstract:
This study determined the measurement equivalence of the South African
Psychological Ownership Questionnaire (SAPOS) for black and white South African
employees. Participants were a non-probability sample of 645 professional level
employees from both the private and the public sector (59.4% were females, 35.2%
were black and 52% were over the age of 40. Over 90% of the participants have
college education qualifications and nearly 41.7% had been working in their current
organisations for a period of less than 5 years). Confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modelling were used to analyse the data. The results indicated
that factor variances appeared to be equal for the two groups although differences
existed in factor loadings and covariances.
