A Call for, and Beginner’s Guide to, Measurement Invariance Testing in Evolutionary Psychology

Wang, Shanshan; Chen, Ching-Chen; Dai, Chia‐Liang; Richardson, G. B.

doi:10.1007/s40806-017-0125-5

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“…The results indicate the equivalence of the factorial composition between the groups (Configural Model) and the intercept of the items among the participants of the different groups (Scalar Model). In both cases, the difference in the CFI between the configural and scalar models is less than 0.01 (Wang, Chen, Dai, & Richardson, 2018). The next step was to obtain more information regarding the characteristics of the items through the PCM (Partial Credit Model, Rash Analysis).…”

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“…Another important aspect regarding the internal structure of the SSI2-Del-Prette concerns the invariance of the assessed parameters (configural and scalar model) between the different groups, according to the sex and age of the participants, with results that guarantee the equivalence of the factorial structure and of the intercept values of the items for the participants of the different groups. According to Wang et al (2018), the parameter invariance indicates that the observable variables of an instrument are related to latent variables in an equivalent manner between groups. In this sense, such evidence should be considered as a requirement for future comparisons between these groups based on the scores obtained with the instrument, ensuring that possible differences between the groups would be linked to real differences in the constructs and not to measurement errors associated with the instrument.…”

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Social Skill Inventory-2 Del-Prette: expanding and updating psychometric properties

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The aim of this research was to update the psychometric properties of the Del-Prette Social Skills Inventory-2, a measure of social performance in social interaction situations. The sample consisted of 4,250 participants of both sexes aged between 18 and 59 years old (M = 35.85; df = 11.33; 51.1% woman). Exploratory Structural Equation Modeling suggested the adequacy of the internal structure of the original version of the instrument, consisting of five factors: Assertive Conversation, Affective-Sexual Approach, Expression of positive sentiment, Self-Control/Coping, and Social Resourcefulness, all of them with good reliability indicators, alphas higher than 0.774, and measurement invariance indicators across groups as a function of sex and different age ranges. The Partial Credit Model provided the item’s and participant’s parameters: difficulty level/theta and adjustment indices, which were adequate. The results suggest that the inventory is a suitable measure of social skills for professional and research purposes.

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Social Skill Inventory-2 Del-Prette: expanding and updating psychometric properties

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2021

Estud. psicol. (Campinas)

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“…Although widely neglected in sex differences research, it is important to assess MI for men and women prior to examination of sex differences (Wang, Chen, Dai, & Richardson, 2018). Drawing on original unmodified models (see Table 3), we established strong MI across sexes in Pakistan, Iran, and Turkey (see Table 4).…”

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Mate Preferences in Three Muslim-Majority Countries: Sex Differences and Personality Correlates

Atari

Chaudhary

Al-Shawaf

2019

Social Psychological and Personality Science

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Cross-cultural research on long-term mate preferences in Muslim-majority countries is scarce. The research described here aims to examine the KASER (kindness/dependability, attractiveness/sexuality, status/resources, education/intelligence, and religiosity/chastity) model of mate preferences in Iran, Pakistan, and Turkey ( N = 1,089). We examined structural validity, measurement invariance between men and women, sex differences, cultural differences, and Big Five personality correlates of these dimensions of mate preferences. Findings supported preregistered hypotheses regarding sex differences in mate preferences. Multilevel models suggested that the magnitude of sex differences was invariant across cultures. Personality correlates of mate preferences varied across cultures, but agreeableness consistently predicted the preference for kind and dependable partners across cultures. In sum, sex differences in mate preferences within and across three Muslim-majority countries described here replicate previous findings, but evidence for personality correlates of mate preferences is mixed, variable across cultures, and in need of further examination in non-Western samples.

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“…Pertinent to the current study, inadequate correspondence between theory and measurement models (McGrath, 2005) as well as lack of measurement invariance (Dong & Dumas, 2020;Stevanovich et al, 2017;Chen, Lau, Richardson, & Dai, 2020) were identified as pressing problems. Evolutionary social science is no outlier when it comes to problems such as these and measurement invariance testing, in particular, is relatively rare in this literature (Wang, Chen, Dai, & Richardson, 2018). Lack of attention to the validity of measures in evolutionary social science is important not only because measurement is the foundation of science, but also because the field often raises controversy and seems to receive a proportional degree of scrutiny (e.g., see Von Hippel, Buss, & Richardson, 2020).…”

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Measurement Issues in Tests of the Socioecological Complexity Hypothesis

Lasker¹,

Jd²,

Richardson³

2021

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Lukaszewski et al. (2017) advanced a socioecological theory to account for differences in the strengths of covariances among disparate personality measurements in different cultures. They tested their theory using personality data gathered from 55 countries, and argued the results of their analysis implicated socioecological complexity as a modifier of personality trait covariances, thus providing evidence against rival explanations for observed differences in personality trait covariances between countries (e.g., life-history theory). While the socioecological complexity hypothesis is novel and interesting, we suggest that the analytic approach and several of the decisions made by Lukaszewski et al. are conceptually and analytically flawed. Accordingly, their findings should be considered cautiously and not construed as evidence against alternative explanations for differences in personality or other behavioral trait covariances within or across countries. Ultimately, their analyses can not empirically adjudicate their hypothesis or provide any means to decide between it and competing ones.

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A Call for, and Beginner’s Guide to, Measurement Invariance Testing in Evolutionary Psychology

Cited by 59 publications

References 74 publications

Social Skill Inventory-2 Del-Prette: expanding and updating psychometric properties

Social Skill Inventory-2 Del-Prette: expanding and updating psychometric properties

Mate Preferences in Three Muslim-Majority Countries: Sex Differences and Personality Correlates

Measurement Issues in Tests of the Socioecological Complexity Hypothesis

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