Testing for comparability of human values across countries and time with the third round of the European Social Survey

International Journal of Comparative Sociology

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 171-191

  Davidov, Eldad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Configural; Human values; Latent means comparison; Metric and scalar invariance; Multigroup confirmatory factor analysis (MGCFA)

Indexed keywords

HUMAN BEHAVIOR; SOCIOBIOLOGY; TESTING METHOD;

EID: 77953432636     PISSN: 00207152     EISSN: 17452554     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0020715210363534     Document Type: Article

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