Book contents
- Methods and Assessment in Culture and Psychology
- Culture and Psychology
- Methods and Assessment in Culture and Psychology
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Additional material
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Foreword
- 1 Introduction to Methods and Assessment in Culture and Psychology
- Part 1 Acculturation and Identity
- Part 2 Individual Differences across Cultures
- Part 3 Culture and Assessment
- 12 Psychological Assessment In and Over Time: Challenges of Assessing Psychological Constructs and Processes in Cultural Dynamics
- 13 Priming Culture(s): How Theories and Methods Inspire Each Other
- 14 The Evolution of Multigroup Comparison Testing across Culture: Past, Present, and Future Perspectives
- 15 How Far Can Measurement Be Culture-Free?
- Index
- References
14 - The Evolution of Multigroup Comparison Testing across Culture: Past, Present, and Future Perspectives
from Part 3 - Culture and Assessment
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 January 2021
- Methods and Assessment in Culture and Psychology
- Culture and Psychology
- Methods and Assessment in Culture and Psychology
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Additional material
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Foreword
- 1 Introduction to Methods and Assessment in Culture and Psychology
- Part 1 Acculturation and Identity
- Part 2 Individual Differences across Cultures
- Part 3 Culture and Assessment
- 12 Psychological Assessment In and Over Time: Challenges of Assessing Psychological Constructs and Processes in Cultural Dynamics
- 13 Priming Culture(s): How Theories and Methods Inspire Each Other
- 14 The Evolution of Multigroup Comparison Testing across Culture: Past, Present, and Future Perspectives
- 15 How Far Can Measurement Be Culture-Free?
- Index
- References
Summary
Although multi-group comparisons have been of substantial interest to cross-cultural psychologists for the past 6 decades, the critical importance of measurement invariance was neither recognized nor made possible until the seminal CFA work of Jöreskog (1971) in developing a method capable of such analyses. Further complications have been the assumption that any difference findings derive from the cultures involved, albeit with no identification or justification for such differences (Matsumoto & Yoo, 2006). Indeed, the 1990’s saw a substantial increase in testing for measurement and latent mean equivalencies across numerous groups that commonly included countries. It was during this 20-year period (1990-2010) that the impracticality of the CFA approach to these analyses became known and the development of a new generation of alternative methodological procedures that allow for approximate, rather than exact measurement invariance across groups became known. In this chapter, we trace the early difficulties in testing for measurement equivalence across cultural groups, identify common quandaries encountered in applying these analyses across multiple groups, and outline the pros and cons pertinent to the more recent statistical procedures used in testing for approximate measurement equivalence.
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- Methods and Assessment in Culture and Psychology , pp. 296 - 318Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021
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