Using a Few Snapshots to Distinguish Mountains from Waves: Weak Factorial Invariance in the Context of Trait-State Research

Multivariate Behavioral Research

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 47-60

  Hamaker, E L ^a   Schuurman, N K ^a   Zijlmans, E A O ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Factorial invariance; longitudinal data analysis; multilevel modeling; trait state distinction; within person versus between person

Indexed keywords

DATA ANALYSIS; FACTOR ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MULTILEVEL ANALYSIS; ADOLESCENT; ALGORITHM; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY TEST; PROCEDURES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME FACTOR; VERY ELDERLY;

ADOLESCENT; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DEPRESSION; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MULTILEVEL ANALYSIS; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY TESTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84996629672     PISSN: 00273171     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00273171.2016.1251299     Document Type: Article

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