Do Two or More Multicomponent Instruments Measure the Same Construct? Testing Construct Congruence Using Latent Variable Modeling

Educational and Psychological Measurement

Volumn 76, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 873-884

  Raykov, Tenko ^a   Marcoulides, George A ^b   Tong, Bing ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

congruence; construct; latent variable modeling; multidimensionality; nested models; unidimensionality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84987749912     PISSN: 00131644     EISSN: 15523888     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0013164415604705     Document Type: Article

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