Testing measurement invariance using multigroup CFA: Differences between educational groups in human values measurement

Quality and Quantity

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 599-616

  Steinmetz, Holger ^a   Schmidt, Peter ^a   Tina Booh, Andrea ^a   Wieczorek, Siegrid ^a   Schwartz, Shalom H ^b  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cross cultural psychology; Education; Measurement invariance; Multigroup analyses; Survey; Values

Indexed keywords

EID: 67650581597     PISSN: 00335177     EISSN: 15737845     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11135-007-9143-x     Document Type: Article

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