Editorial: Measurement Invariance

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Van De Schoot, Rens ^a,b   Schmidt, Peter ^c,d   De Beuckelaer, Alain ^e,f,g   Lek, Kimberley ^a   Zondervan Zwijnenburg, Marielle ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b NORTH WEST UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^c JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d NATIONAL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY HIGHER SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Russian Federation)

^e RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^f RENMIN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^g GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

approximate measurement invariance; Bayesian models; confirmatory factor analysis; measurement invariance; partial measurement invariance; questionnaires

Indexed keywords

EID: 85118771234     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01064     Document Type: Editorial

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