Problems with item parceling for confirmatory factor analytic tests of measurement invariance

Organizational Research Methods

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 369-403

  Meade, Adam W ^a   Kroustalis, Christina M ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Factorial invariance; Item parceling; Item parcels; Measurement invariance

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745012876     PISSN: 10944281     EISSN: 15527425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1094428105283384     Document Type: Article

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