No two ageisms are the same: testing measurement invariance in ageism experience across Europe

Ageism in a Cross-Cultural Perspective: Reflections from the Research Field

“…Ageism may be a worldwide phenomenon but its particularities attest to the importance of recognizing the interaction between situational contexts and ageist practices. For example, methodological reflections on the ways in which the ESS is used in Europe to study ageism confirms that levels of sensitivity to the experience of ageism vary from country to country making it difficult to reach rigorous conclusions (Trusinová 2014). There seems to be a clear difference in the experience of direct age discrimination between Northwest and Southeast Europe, which, among other things, can be related to the differences in social arrangement systems following diverse welfare state traditions (van den Heuvel and van Santvoort 2011).…”

“…Accordingly, there is growing recognition that ageism needs to be understood in relation to the various spaces in which it occurs (McHugh 2003). For example, different welfare and cultural norms tend to affect the ways in which people relate to this phenomenon (Radl 2012;Trusinová 2014; van den Heuvel and van Santvoort 2011). Schoenberg and Lewis (2005) discussed the phenomenon of cross-cultural ageism to emphasize that a cross-national perspective in the study of ageism makes an important contribution to understanding the ways in which local contexts shape and influence ageism.…”

Comparing alignment and multiple group CFA for analysing political trust in europe during the crisis

“…Alignment is an alternative method to MGCFA, and can be used to study multiple groups with substantive information (such as latent means). The main goal of Alignment method is to provide a comparison across groups, while allowing for approximate measurement invariance , 2014.…”

“…Metric invariance requires equal loadings for each group; if invariance holds, it permits relationships comparison. A more strict type of invariance than configural and metric is scalar invariance, which requires equal loading and intercepts among groups; if scalar invariance holds, it permits the comparison of latent means among groups (Davidov et al, 2014;Trusinová, 2014).…”

Agisem in the European Region: Finding from the European Social Survey

“…patronizing behaviour or neglect). Importantly, these items coupled with advances in statistical analysis, allow us to explore experienced of age discrimination across countries (Trusinova 2014) and age (Bratt et al 2018). A recent study used these three items to (1) investigate measurement invariance for perceived age discrimination across countries and across age and (2) to investigate levels of perceived age discrimination across age (Bratt et al 2018).…”