PMID- 25249996
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
DCOM- 20140924
LR  - 20211021
IS  - 1664-1078 (Print)
IS  - 1664-1078 (Electronic)
IS  - 1664-1078 (Linking)
VI  - 5
DP  - 2014
TI  - Comparing results of an exact vs. an approximate (Bayesian) measurement 
      invariance test: a cross-country illustration with a scale to measure 19 human 
      values.
PG  - 982
LID - 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00982 [doi]
LID - 982
AB  - One of the most frequently used procedures for measurement invariance testing is 
      the multigroup confirmatory factor analysis (MGCFA). Muthen and Asparouhov 
      recently proposed a new approach to test for approximate rather than exact 
      measurement invariance using Bayesian MGCFA. Approximate measurement invariance 
      permits small differences between parameters otherwise constrained to be equal in 
      the classical exact approach. However, extant knowledge about how results of 
      approximate measurement invariance tests compare to the results of the exact 
      measurement invariance test is missing. We address this gap by comparing the 
      results of exact and approximate cross-country measurement invariance tests of a 
      revised scale to measure human values. Several studies that measured basic human 
      values with the Portrait Values Questionnaire (PVQ) reported problems of 
      measurement noninvariance (especially scalar noninvariance) across countries. 
      Recently Schwartz et al. proposed a refined value theory and an instrument 
      (PVQ-5X) to measure 19 more narrowly defined values. Cieciuch et al. tested its 
      measurement invariance properties across eight countries and established exact 
      scalar measurement invariance for 10 of the 19 values. The current study applied 
      the approximate measurement invariance procedure on the same data and established 
      approximate scalar measurement invariance even for all 19 values. Thus, the first 
      conclusion is that the approximate approach provides more encouraging results for 
      the usefulness of the scale for cross-cultural research, although this finding 
      needs to be generalized and validated in future research using population data. 
      The second conclusion is that the approximate measurement invariance is more 
      likely than the exact approach to establish measurement invariance, although 
      further simulation studies are needed to determine more precise recommendations 
      about how large the permissible variance of the priors may be.
FAU - Cieciuch, Jan
AU  - Cieciuch J
AD  - University Research Priority Program 'Social Networks,' University of Zurich 
      Zurich, Switzerland ; Institute of Psychology, Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski 
      University in Warsaw Warsaw, Poland.
FAU - Davidov, Eldad
AU  - Davidov E
AD  - Institute of Sociology, University of Zurich Zurich, Switzerland.
FAU - Schmidt, Peter
AU  - Schmidt P
AD  - International Laboratory for Socio-Cultural Research, National Research 
      University-Higher School of Economics Moscow, Russia ; Department of Political 
      Science, University of Giessen Giessen, Germany.
FAU - Algesheimer, Rene
AU  - Algesheimer R
AD  - Department of Business Administration, University of Zurich Zurich, Switzerland.
FAU - Schwartz, Shalom H
AU  - Schwartz SH
AD  - International Laboratory for Socio-Cultural Research, National Research 
      University-Higher School of Economics Moscow, Russia ; Department of Psychology, 
      The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Jerusalem, Israel.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20140908
PL  - Switzerland
TA  - Front Psychol
JT  - Frontiers in psychology
JID - 101550902
PMC - PMC4157555
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Bayesian analysis
OT  - approximate measurement invariance
OT  - configural metric scalar measurement invariance
OT  - exact measurement invariance
OT  - multigroup confirmatory factor analysis
OT  - revised Portrait Values Questionnaire
EDAT- 2014/09/25 06:00
MHDA- 2014/09/25 06:01
PMCR- 2014/09/08
CRDT- 2014/09/25 06:00
PHST- 2014/05/27 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2014/08/19 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2014/09/25 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2014/09/25 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2014/09/25 06:01 [medline]
PHST- 2014/09/08 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00982 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - Front Psychol. 2014 Sep 8;5:982. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00982. eCollection 2014.