A cross-cultural procedure to assess reliability and measurement invariance.
Steenkamp and Baumgartner (1998) developed a procedure to assess measurement invariance across cultures. The study presented here applied their procedure to a scale to measure cognitive age (Barak, 1979; 1987; 1998; Barak and Schiffman, 1981) and relied on data collected in three Non-Western societies: India (N=195), China (N=250), and Korea (N=251). The results from a series of confirmatory factor analyses indicate that the technique provides a valuable tool to assess measurement invariance across cultures. The results further showed the cognitive age scale to be applicable in the three diverse cultures surveyed.
Mathur
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Frank G. Zarb School of Business, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY 11549, USA. mktazm@hofstra.edu
Barak
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Lee
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000375:Aging / Q000523:psychology*; D002648:Child; D002681:China; D003258:Consumer Behavior / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007194:India; D007723:Korea; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010555:Personality Inventory / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012649:Self Concept