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A primer to (cross-cultural) multi-group invariance testing possibilities in R

Fischer, Ronald orcid logoORCID: 0000-0002-3055-3955 and Karl, Johannes Alfons orcid logoORCID: 0000-0001-5166-0728 (2019) A primer to (cross-cultural) multi-group invariance testing possibilities in R. Frontiers in Psychology, 10 . ISSN 1664-1078

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 extension to exploratory structural equation modeling, and multi-group alignment; (2) iterative hybrid logistic regression as well as (3) exploratory factor analysis and principal component analysis with Procrustes rotation. We pay specific attention to effect size measures of item biases and differential item function. Code in R is provided in the main text and online (see https://osf.io/agr5e/), and more extended code and a general introduction to R are available in the Supplementary Materials.
Metadata
Item Type:Article (Published)
Refereed:Yes
Additional Information:Article number: 01507
Uncontrolled Keywords:invariance; culture; procrustean analyses; confirmatory factor analysis– CFA; DIF (differential item functioning); R; ESEM; alignment
Subjects:Computer Science > Computer software
Medical Sciences > Psychology
Social Sciences > Social psychology
DCU Faculties and Centres:DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Science and Health > School of Psychology
Publisher:Frontiers Media
Official URL:https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01507
Copyright Information:© 2019 The Authors. Open Access (CC-BY 4.0)
ID Code:27436
Deposited On:27 Jul 2022 12:45 by Johannes Karl . Last Modified 18 Jan 2023 13:34
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