Registered Report: Testing Ideological Asymmetries in Measurement Invariance.

ABSTRACT: People with different ideological identities differ in their values, personality, affect, and psychological motivations. These differences are observed on measures of practical and clinical importance and these differences are the central node tying together theories about the psychology of political ideology; however, they rest on a critical untested assumption: The measures are invariant across ideological groups. Here, we test this assumption across 28 constructs in data from the United States and the Netherlands. Measures are not invariant across ideological divisions. At the same time, estimates of ideological similarities and differences are largely similar before and after correcting for measurement noninvariance. This may give us increased confidence in the results from this resear

SUBMITTER: Brandt MJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7961747 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature