The impact of controlling for extreme responding on measurement equivalence in cross-cultural research

Methodology

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 159-170

  Morren, Meike ^a   Gelissen, John ^a   Vermunt, Jeroen ^a  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Attitude measurement; Cross cultural research; Extreme response style; Latent class factor models; Measurement equivalence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868015944     PISSN: 16141881     EISSN: 16142241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1614-2241/a000048     Document Type: Article

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