A Primer to (Cross-Cultural) Multi-Group Invariance Testing Possibilities in R.

ABSTRACT: Psychology has become less WEIRD in recent years, marking progress toward becoming a truly global psychology. However, this increase in cultural diversity is not matched by greater attention to cultural biases in research. A significant challenge in culture-comparative research in psychology is that any comparisons are open to possible item bias and non-invariance. Unfortunately, many psychologists are not aware of problems and their implications, and do not know how to best test for invariance in their data. We provide a general introduction to invariance testing and a tutorial of three major classes of techniques that can be easily implemented in the free software and statistical language R. Specifically, we describe (1) confirmatory and multi-group confirmatory factor analysis, with ext

SUBMITTER: Fischer R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6657455 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature