Necessary but Insufficient: Why Measurement Invariance Tests Need Online Probing as a Complementary Tool.

ABSTRACT: Cross-national data production in social science research has increased dramatically in recent decades. Assessing the comparability of data is necessary before drawing substantive conclusions that are based on cross-national data. Researchers assessing data comparability typically use either quantitative methods such as multigroup confirmatory factor analysis or qualitative methods such as online probing. Because both methods have complementary strengths and weaknesses, this study applies both multigroup confirmatory factor analysis and online probing in a mixed-methods approach to assess the comparability of constructive patriotism and nationalism, two important concepts in the study of national identity. Previous measurement invariance tests failed to achieve scalar measurement invarianc

SUBMITTER: Meitinger K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5452432 | biostudies-literature | 2017 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature