Measurement invariance of the moral vitalism scale across 28 cultural groups.

ABSTRACT: Moral vitalism refers to a tendency to view good and evil as actual forces that can influence people and events. The Moral Vitalism Scale had been designed to assess moral vitalism in a brief survey form. Previous studies established the reliability and validity of the scale in US-American and Australian samples. In this study, the cross-cultural comparability of the scale was tested across 28 different cultural groups worldwide through measurement invariance tests. A series of exact invariance tests marginally supported partial metric invariance, however, an approximate invariance approach provided evidence of partial scalar invariance for a 5-item measure. The established level of measurement invariance allows for comparisons of latent means across cultures. We conclude that the brief me

SUBMITTER: Rudnev M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7282638 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature