IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/spr/ssdmcp/978-3-030-93005-9_25.html

Examining Items’ Suitability as the Marker Indicator in Testing Measurement Invariance

Author

Listed:
  • Anastasia Charalampi

    (Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Department of Social Policy)

  • Catherine Michalopoulou

    (Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Department of Social Policy)

  • Clive Richardson

    (Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Department of Economic and Regional Development)

Abstract

In testing measurement invariance, researchers must choose which item of the observed construct will serve as the marker indicator. In the literature, little consideration is given to this rarely-reported decision and an item is often selected automatically by software defaults. However, in many cases, the choice of marker indicator may influence the interpretation of the model. In this paper, we explore empirically the suitability of items by repeatedly performing multiple-groups Confirmatory factor analysis of the same data using a different marker indicator each time. The investigation is based on an eleven-item unidimensional scale measuring emotional wellbeing from the European Social Survey of 2006 and 2012. Measurement invariance is tested for gender and employment status groups in a combined sample of eight European countries: Belgium, France, Germany, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Russian Federation and Spain.

Suggested Citation

Handle: RePEc:spr:ssdmcp:978-3-030-93005-9_25
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-93005-9_25
as

Download full text from publisher

To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
3. Perform a
for a similarly titled item that would be available.

More about this item

Keywords

;
;
;
;

Statistics

Access and download statistics

Corrections

All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:spr:ssdmcp:978-3-030-93005-9_25. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.springer.com .

Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.