The Issue of Measurement Invariance Revisited  

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Watkins, David ; Byrne, Barbara M.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology (http://journals.sagepub.com/home/jcca) vol. 34 no. 2 (Mar. 2003), page 155-175.
Topik: Modeled variance; multigroup invariance; structural equation modeling; cross - cultural comparisons; self description questionnaire
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The purposes of this study were two fold : a. based on the analysis of covariance structures, to test for the equivalence of a well - known measuring instrument across two culturally diverse groups and b. provided with findings of non equivalent items, to identify possible determinants of their non invariance, post hoc, investigations included tests for evidence of items bias using an ANOVA - based approach and examination of graphical displays of item response and distributional patterns. Example data comprised item responses to the four non academic subscales of the self description questionnaire I (SDQ - I) for australian (N = 497) and nigerian (N = 439) adolescents. Despite similarly specified and well - fitting factor structures for both cultural groups, findings revealed evidence of both measurement and structural non invariance. Results underscore previous caveats regarding interpretation of instrument equivalence, they add also to the growing body of skepticism that quiries whether measuring instruments can ever be totally equivalent when used in cross - cultural comparisons.

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