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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
psychology
On Enhancing the Cross-Cultural Comparability of Likert-Scale Personality and Value Measures: A Comparison of Common Procedures
European Journal of Personality, Volume 31, No. 6, Year 2017
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This study aims to evaluate a number of procedures that have been proposed to enhance cross-cultural comparability of personality and value data. A priori procedures (anchoring vignettes and direct measures of response styles (i.e. acquiescence, extremity, midpoint responding, and social desirability), a posteriori procedures focusing on data transformations prior to analysis (ipsatization and item parcelling), and two data modelling procedures (treating data as continuous vs as ordered categories) were compared using data collected from university students in 16 countries. We found that (i) anchoring vignettes showed lack of invariance, so they were not bias-free; (ii) anchoring vignettes showed higher internal consistencies than raw scores where all other correction procedures, notably ipsatization, showed lower internal consistencies; (iii) in measurement invariance testing, no procedure yielded scalar invariance; anchoring vignettes and item parcelling slightly improved comparability, response style correction did not affect it, and ipsatization resulted in lower comparability; (iv) treating Likert-scale data as categorical resulted in higher levels of comparability; (v) factor scores of scales extracted from different procedures showed similar correlational patterning; and (vi) response style correction was the only procedure that suggested improvement in external validity of country-level conscientiousness. We conclude that, although no procedure resolves all comparability issues, anchoring vignettes, parcelling, and treating data as ordered categories seem promising to alleviate incomparability. We advise caution in uncritically applying any of these procedures. Copyright © 2017 European Association of Personality Psychology.
Authors & Co-Authors
He, Jia
Netherlands, Tilburg
Tilburg University
Van De Vijver, Fons J.R.
Netherlands, Tilburg
Tilburg University
Fetvadjiev, Velichko H.
New Zealand, Wellington
Victoria University of Wellington
de Carmen Dominguez Espinosa, Alejandra
Mexico, Mexico City
Universidad Iberoamericana
Adams, Byron Gregory
Netherlands, Tilburg
Tilburg University
Alonso-Arbiol, I.
Spain, Leioa
Universidad Del Pais Vasco
Karakulak, Arzu
Turkey, Istanbul
Bahçeşehir Üniversitesi
Buzea, Carmen
Romania, Brasov
Universitatea Transilvania Din Brașov
Dimitrova, Radosveta
Sweden, Stockholm
Stockholms Universitet
Fortin, Alvaro
Netherlands, Tilburg
Tilburg University
Hapunda, Given
Zambia, Lusaka
University of Zambia
Ma, Sang
China, Shanghai
Shanghai International Studies University
Sargautyte, Rūta
Lithuania, Vilnius
Vilniaus Universitetas
Sim, Samantha
Singapore, Singapore City
Singapore Management University
Schachner, Maja Katharina
Germany, Potsdam
Universität Potsdam
Suryani, Angela Oktavia
Indonesia, Jakarta
Universitas Katolik Indonesia Atma Jaya
Zeinoun, Pia
Lebanon, Beirut
American University of Beirut
Zhang, Rui
United States, Carlisle
Dickinson College
Statistics
Citations: 38
Authors: 18
Affiliations: 15
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1002/per.2132
e-ISSN:
10990984