An IRT-based two-wave model for studying short-term stability in personality measurement

Applied Psychological Measurement

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 286-301

  Ferrando, Pere J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

Author keywords

Item parameter invariance; Item response theory; Personality measurement; Retest effects; Structural equation models; Trait stability

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036375267     PISSN: 01466216     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0146621602026003004     Document Type: Article

References (55)

1. Aish, A. M., & Jöreskog, K. G. (1990). A panel model for political efficacy and responsiveness: An application of LISREL 7 with weighted least squares. Quality and Quantity, 24, 405-426.
2. Alsup, R., & Gillespie, D. F. (1997). Stability of attitudes toward abortion and sex roles: A two-factor measurement model at two points of time. Structural Equation Modeling, 4, 338-352.
3. Anastasi, A. (1968). Psychological testing. New York: Macmillan.
4. Angleitner, A., John, O. P., & Lörh, F. J. (1986). It's what you ask and how you ask it: An itemmetric analysis of personality questionnaires. In A. Angleitner & J. S. Wiggins (Eds.), Personality assessment via questionnaires (pp. 61-107). Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
5. Blalock, H. M. ( 1970). Estimating measurement error using multiple indicators and several points of time. American Sociological Review, 35, 101-111.
6. Bock, R. D., & Aitkin, M. (1981). Marginal maximum likelihood estimation of item parameters: Application of the EM algorithm. Psychometrika, 46, 443-459.
7. Browne, M. W., & Cudeck, R. (1989). Single sample cross-validation indices for covariance structures. Multivariate Behavioral Research, 24, 445-455.
8. Campbell, D. T., & Stanley, J. C. (1966). Experimental and quasi-experimental designs for research. Chicago: Rand McNally.
9. Cattell, R. B. (1986). The psychometric properties of tests: Consistency, validity and efficiency. In R. B. Cattell & R. C. Johnson (Eds.), Functional psychological testing (pp. 54-78). New York: Brunner/Mazel.
10. Christoffersson, A. (1975). Factor analysis of dichotomized variables. Psychometrika, 40(1), 5-31.
11. Conley, J. J. (1984). The hierarchy of consistency: A review and model of longitudinal findings on adult individual differences in intelligence, personality and self-opinion. Personality and Individual Differences, 5, 11-25.
12. Converse, P. E., & Markus, G. B. (1979). Plus ça change...: The new CPS election study panel. American Political Science Review, 73, 32-49.
13. Cook, T. D., & Campbell, D. T. (1979). Quasi-experimentation. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
14. Costa, P. T., & McCrae, R. R. (1985). Concurrent validation after 20 years: The implications of personality stability for its assessment. In J. N. Butcher & C. D. Spielberger (Eds.), Advances in personality assessment (Vol. 4, pp. 31-54). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Earlbaum.
15. Costa, P. T., & McCrae, R. R. (1997). Longitudinal stability of adult personality. In R. Hogan, J. Johnson, & S. Briggs (Eds.), Handbook of personality psychology (pp. 269-290). New York: Academic Press.
16. Costa, P. T., McCrae, R. R., & Arenberg, D. (1980). Enduring dispositions in adult males. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 38, 793-800.
17. Eysenck, S. B. G., Eysenck, H. J., & Barren, P. T. (1985). A revised version of the Psychoticism scale. Personality and Individual Differences, 6, 21-29.
18. Finch, J. F., & West, S. G. (1997). The investigation of personality structure: Statistical models. Journal of Research in Personality, 31, 439-485.
19. Goldberg, L. R. (1978). The reliability of reliability: The generality and correlates of intra-individual consistency in responses to structured personality inventories. Applied Psychological Measurement, 2, 269-291.
20. Heise, D. R. (1969). Separating reliability and stability in test-retest correlation. American Sociological Review, 34, 93-101.
21. Hu, L., & Bentler, P. M. (1999). Cutoff criteria for fit indices in covariance structure analysis: Conventional criteria versus new alternatives. Structural Equation Modeling, 6, 1-55.
22. Jöreskog, K. G. (1979). Statistical models and methods for the analysis of longitudinal data. In J. Madgison (Ed.), Advances in factor analysis and structural equation models (pp. 129-171). Cambridge, MA: Abt Books.
23. Jöreskog, K. G. (1990). New developments in LISREL: Analysis of ordinal variables using polychoric correlations and weighted least squares. Quality and Quantity, 24, 387-404.
24. Kenny, D. A. (1979). Correlation and causality. New York: John Wiley.
25. Kenny, D. A., & Campbell, D. T. (1989). On the measurement of stability in over-time data. Journal of Personality, 57, 445-481.
26. Kline, P. (1983). Personality: Measurement and theory. London: Hutchinson.
27. Lord, F. M. (1980). Applications of item response theory to practical testing problems. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
28. McDonald, R. P. (1999). Test theory: A unified treatment. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
29. Mislevy, R. J., & Bock, R. D. (1990). BILOG 3 Item analysis and test scoring with binary logistic models. Mooresville, IN: Scientific Software.
30. Muthén, B. (1978). Contributions to factor analysis of dichotomous variables. Psychometrika, 43, 551-560.
31. Muthén, B. (1981). Factor analysis of dichotomous variables: American attitudes toward abortion. In D. J. Jackson & E. F. Borgatta (Eds.), Factor analysis and measurement in sociological research: A multidimensional perspective (pp. 201-214). London: Sage.
32. Muthén, B. (1984). A general structural equation model with dichotomous, ordered, categorical and continuous latent variable indicators. Psychometrika, 49, 115-132.
33. Muthén, B. (1993). Goodness of fit with categorical and other nonnormal variables. In K. A. Bollen & J. S. Long (Eds.), Testing structural equation models (pp. 205-234). Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
34. Muthén, B., & Christofferson, A. (1981). Simultaneous factor analysis of dichotomous variables in several groups. Psychometrika, 46, 407-419.
35. Muthén, B., & Lehman, J. (1985). Multiple group IRT modeling: Applications to item bias analysis. Journal of Educational Statistics, 10, 133-142.
36. Muthén, L. K., & Muthén, B. (1999). Mplus user's guide. Los Angeles: Muthén & Muthén.
37. Nunnally, J. C. (1970). Introduction to psychological measurement. New York: McGraw-Hill.
38. Potthast, M. J. (1993) Confirmatory factor analysis of ordered categorical variables with large models. British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, 46, 273-286.
39. Reise, S. P. (1999). Personality measurement issues viewed through the eyes of IRT. In S. E. Embretson & S. L. Hershberger (Eds.), The new rules of measurement (pp. 219-241). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
40. Reise, S. P., & Waller, N. G. (1990). Fitting the two-parameter model to personality data. Applied Psychological Measurement, 14, 45-58.
41. Rozelle, R, M., & Campbell, D. T. (1969). More plausible rival hypotheses in the cross-lagged panel correlation technique. Psychological Bulletin, 71, 74-80.
42. Schuerger, J. M., Tait, E., & Tavemelli, M. (1982). Temporal stability of personality by questionnaire. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 43, 176-182.
43. Schuerger, J. M., Zarella, K. L., & Hotz, A. S. (1989). Factors that influence the temporal stability of personality by questionnaire. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 56, 777-783.
44. Smith, D. D. (1992). Longitudinal stability of personality. Psychological Reports, 70, 483-498.
45. Sörbom, D. (1979). Detection of correlated errors in longitudinal data. In J. Magidson (Ed.), Advances in factor analysis and structural equation models (pp. 171-184). Cambridge, MA: Abt Books.
46. Steiger, J. H. (1989). EzPATH: A supplementary module for SYSTAT and SYGRAPH. Evanston, IL: SYSTAT.
47. Steiger, J. H. (1998). A note on multiple sample extensions of the RMSEA fit index. Structural Equation Modeling, 5, 411-419.
48. Steinberg, L., & Thissen, D. (1995). Item response theory in personality research. In P. E. Shrout & S. T. Fiske (Eds.), Personality research, methods and theory: A festschrift honoring Donald W. Fiske (pp. 161-181). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
49. Takane, Y., & de Leeuw, J. (1987). On the relationship between item response theory and factor analysis of discretized variables. Psychometrika, 52(3), 393-408.
50. Thorndike, R. L. (1951 ). Reliability. In E. F. Lindquist (Ed.), Educational measurement (pp. 560-619). Washington, DC: American Council on Education.
51. Waller, N. G., Tellegen, A., McDonald, R. P., & Lykken, D. T. (1996). Exploring nonlinear models in personality assessment: Development and validation of a negative emotionality scale. Journal of Personality, 64, 545-576.
52. Werts, C. E., Jöreskog, K. G., & Linn, R. L. (1971). Comment on "The estimation of measurement error in panel data." American Sociological Review, 36, 110-113.
53. Wheaton, B., Muthén, B., Alwin, D., & Summers, G. (1977). Assessing reliability and stability in panel models. In D. R. Heise (Ed.), Sociological methodology 1977 (pp. 84-136). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
54. Wiley, D. E., & Wiley, J. A. (1970). The estimation of measurement error in panel data. American Sociological Review, 35, 112-117.
55. Wiley, J. A., & Wiley, M. G. (1974). A note on correlated errors in repeated measurements. Sociological Methods & Research, 3, 172-188.