Intended to bridge the gap between the latest methodological developments and cross-cultural research, this interdisciplinary resource presents the latest strategies for analyzing cross-cultural data. Techniques are demonstrated through the use of applications that employ cross-national data sets such as the latest European Social Survey. With an emphasis on the generalized latent variable approach, internationally prominent researchers from a variety of fields explain how the methods work, how to apply them, and how they relate to other methods presented in the book. Syntax and graphical and verbal explanations of the techniques are included.
Author(s): Jaak Billiet, Eldad Davidov, Bart Meuleman, Peter Schmidt
Series: European Association Of Methodology
Edition: 2nd Edition
Publisher: Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group
Year: 2018
Language: English
Pages: 0
Tags: Experimental Design & Research Methods, Cross Cultural Psychology, Cultural Studies, Research Methods In Education, Quantitative Methods, Cultural Development, Culture & Development, Race & Ethnic Studies, Ethnicity, Social & Cultural Anthropology
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About the Contributors
Preface
Section I MGCFA and MGSEM Techniques
Chapter 1 Capturing Bias in Structural Equation Modeling
Chapter 2 Evaluating Change in Social and Political Trust in Europe
Chapter 3 Methodological Issues in Using Structural Equation Models for Testing Differential Item Functioning
Chapter 4 Estimation and Comparison of Latent Means Across Cultures
Chapter 5 Biased Latent Variable Mean Comparisons Due to Measurement Noninvariance: A Simulation Study. Chapter 6 Testing the Invariance of Values in the Benelux Countries With the European Social Survey: Accounting for OrdinalityChapter 7 Religious Involvement: Its Relation to Values and Social Attitudes
Chapter 8 Measurement Equivalence of the Dispositional Resistance to Change Scale
Chapter 9 Measurement Equivalence Testing 2.0
Section II Multilevel Analysis
Chapter 10 Perceived Economic Threat and Anti-Immigration Attitudes: Effects of Immigrant Group Size and Economic Conditions Revisited
Chapter 11 A Multilevel Regression Analysis on Work Ethic. Chapter 12 Multilevel Structural Equation Modeling for Cross-cultural Research: Exploring Resampling Methods to Overcome Small Sample Size ProblemsChapter 13 Explaining Cross-National Measurement Inequivalence: A Bayesian Multilevel CFA With Random Loadings
Section III Latent Class Analysis (LCA)
Chapter 14 Testing for Measurement Invariance With Latent Class Analysis
Chapter 15 A Multiple Group Latent Class Analysis of Religious Orientations in Europe
Chapter 16 Testing for Invariance of Latent Classes: Group-as-Covariate Approach
Section IV Item Response Theory (IRT). Chapter 17 Using a Differential Item Functioning Approach to Investigate Measurement InvarianceChapter 18 Using the Mixed Rasch Model in the Comparative Analysis of Attitudes
Chapter 19 Random Item Effects Modeling for Cross-National Survey Data
Section V New and Emerging Topics in Cross-Cultural Analysis
Chapter 20 Exact and Bayesian Approximate Measurement Invariance
Chapter 21 Alignment Optimization: Estimation of the Most Trustworthy Means in Cross-Cultural Studies even in the Presence of Noninvariance
Chapter 22 Sensitivity Analysis. Chapter 23 How Should Immigrants Adapt to Their Country of Residence? A Mixed Methods Approach to Evaluate the International Applicability of a Question From the German General Social Survey (ALLBUS)Author Index
Subject Index.
