Subjective Well-Being, Critical Race Theory, and the Assessment of Measurement Invariance Across Racial Groups

Curtis, Christopher A.; Hurley, Landon; Farmer, G. Lawrence

doi:10.1177/1098214020921954

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“…When these measures are used to make meaningful comparisons between individuals or socio-economic groups or across time points, a key assumption is the measurement invariance property, that is, the same underlying construct is measured across groups or time (Vandenberg and Lance, 2000). However, the same question/item can be understood in different ways by people from different cultural contexts (Curtis et al, 2021). Important intergroup differences in the survey responses could also reflect such differences in the interpretation of the question.…”

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A Novel Indicator to Correct for Individual Reported Heterogeneity. An Application to Self-Evaluation of Later-Life Depression

et al. 2023

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Program evaluations often investigate complex or multi-dimensional constructs, such as individual opinions or attitudes, by means of ratings. A different interpretation of the same question may affect cross-country comparability, leading to the Differential Item Functioning problem. Anchoring vignettes were introduced in the literature as a way to adjust self-evaluations from this interpersonal incomparability. In this paper, we first introduce a new nonparametric solution to analyse anchoring vignette data, recoding a variable based on a rating scale to a new corrected-variable that guarantees comparability in any cross-country analysis. Then, we exploit the flexibility of a mixture model introduced to account for uncertainty in the response process (the CUP model) to test if the proposed solution is effectively able to remove this reported heterogeneity. This solution is easy to construct and has important advantages compared with the original nonparametric solution adopted with anchoring vignette data. The novel indicator is applied to investigate self-reported depression in an old population. Data that will be analysed come from the second wave of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe, collected in 2006/2007. Results highlight the need of correcting for reported heterogeneity comparing individual self-evaluations. Once interpersonal incomparability resulting from the different uses of response scales is removed from the self-assessments, some estimates are reversed in magnitude and signs with respect to the analysis of the collected data.

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confidence: 99%