Substance Use and Depression Symptomatology: Measurement Invariance of the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI-II) among Non-Users and Frequent-Users of Alcohol, Nicotine and Cannabis [PDF]
Depression is a highly heterogeneous condition, and identifying how symptoms present in various groups may greatly increase our understanding of its etiology.
Moore, Ashlee A. +3 more
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Comparing RMSEA-Based Indices for Assessing Measurement Invariance in Confirmatory Factor Models
Fit indices are descriptive measures that can help evaluate how well a confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) model fits a researcher’s data. In multigroup models, before between-group comparisons are made, fit indices may be used to evaluate measurement ...
Nataly Beribisky, Gregory R. Hancock
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Examining the Invariance of a Measurement Model by Using the Covariance Structure Approach
The primary aim of the present study is to examine the measurement invariance of the structural equating model constructed on the numerical and verbal abilities test for sixth grade students across gender, amount of weekly pocket money and students ...
Şeref Tan, Sami PEKTAŞ
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Background The 8-item Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D 8) has been widely used to measure depressive symptoms in many large-scale surveys. Due to its brevity, it can lower costs, relieve respondent burdens, and ensure data quality.
Shuxia Liu +4 more
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Revisiting the Middleton Alienation Scale: In Search of a Cross-Culturally Valid Instrument
The article contributes to the issue how to deal with measurement non-variance. I address a well-established scale by Middleton (1963) which was created to measure alienation.
Ekaterina Lytkina
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Perceived Health Outcomes of Recreation Scale: Measurement Invariance over Gender
Background: Research handling structural differences among groups presume that the measurement tool works similarly among the groups and the results of measurements provide similar psychometric properties.
Elif Köse +5 more
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Short version of the smartphone addiction scale: Measurement invariance across gender
The Smartphone Addiction Scale Short Version (SAS-SV) has been widely used in research, but little is known about the measurement invariance across gender.
Heng Yue +5 more
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The Causal Model of Public Acceptance of Genetically Modified Food: An Invariance Analysis
Measurement invariance refers to the equivalence of measurement instrument in different groups. Research on social science often involves comparing different groups, such as whether the relationship between two variables is the same in male and female ...
Longji Hu, Hui Li, Suqiu Tan, Yi Zhang
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Measurement Invariance Testing of Career Anxiety Scale by Gender and Grade Level
This study aimed to examine measurement invariance of the Career Anxiety Scale developed by Çetin-Gündüz and Nalbantoğlu-Yılmaz (2016). For this purpose, multigroup confirmatory factor analysis was performed to test measurement invariance by gender and ...
Hicran Çetin Gündüz +1 more
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Fear of COVID‐19 Scale (FCV‐19S) across countries: Measurement invariance issues
The threats of novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) have caused fears worldwide. The Fear of COVID‐19 Scale (FCV‐19S) was recently developed to assess the fear of COVID‐19.
Chung-Ying Lin +17 more
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