Investigating invariant item ordering in the Mental Health Inventory: An illustration of the use of different methods

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 66, Issue , 2014, Pages 74-78

  Watson, Roger ^a   Wang, Wenru ^b   Thompson, David R ^c   Meijer, Rob R ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c AUSTRALIAN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Coronary heart disease; Invariant item ordering; Item response theory; Mental health; Mokken scaling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84898656262     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2014.03.017     Document Type: Article

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