Bias and equivalence in cross-cultural assessment: an overview

Vijver, Fons van de; Tanzer, Norbert K.

doi:10.1016/j.erap.2003.12.004

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“…The concepts of equivalence and bias have been put forward with regard to cross-cultural assessment and interpretation (van de Vijver & Tanzer, 2004). In our studies, we observed not only similarities but also considerable variation among the samples, both within and across cultures.…”

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Kama Muta: Similar Emotional Responses to Touching Videos Across the United States, Norway, China, Israel, and Portugal

Seibt

Schubert

Zickfeld

et al. 2017

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

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Ethnographies, histories, and popular culture from many regions around the world suggest that marked moments of love, affection, solidarity, or identification everywhere evoke the same emotion. Based on these observations, we developed the kama muta model, in which we conceptualize what people in English often label being moved as a culturally implemented social-relational emotion responding to and regulating communal sharing relations. We hypothesize that experiencing or observing sudden intensification of communal sharing relationships universally tends to elicit this positive emotion, which we call kama muta. When sufficiently intense, kama muta is often accompanied by tears, goosebumps or chills, and feelings of warmth in the center of the chest. We tested this model in seven samples from the United States, Norway, China, Israel, and Portugal. Participants watched short heartwarming videos, and after each video reported the degree, if any, to which they were “moved,” or a translation of this term, its valence, appraisals, sensations, and communal outcome. We confirmed that in each sample, indicators of increased communal sharing predicted kama muta; tears, goosebumps or chills, and warmth in the chest were associated sensations; and the emotion was experienced as predominantly positive, leading to feeling communal with the characters who evoked it.

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Kama Muta: Similar Emotional Responses to Touching Videos Across the United States, Norway, China, Israel, and Portugal

Seibt

Schubert

Zickfeld

et al. 2017

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

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“…However, the validity of inferences based on these instruments entails multiple, non-trivial assumptions that are not always tested (see Byrne and Campbell 1999;Poortinga 1989;Van de Vijver and Leung 1997;Van de Vijver and Tanzer 2004). These issues include the degree to which group-level data are acquired using similar sampling techniques (e.g., if estimates of some nations' scores are inferred from samples of college students, whereas estimates of other nations' scores are inferred from foragers), the degree to which methods of data collection vary across groups (e.g., paper-pencil questionnaire versus interview), the degree to which the same assessment method may produce different demand characteristics across groups, and the degree to which factor structures, factor loadings, and item intercepts are equivalent across groups.…”

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What Can Cross-Cultural Correlations Teach Us about Human Nature?

Pollet

Tybur

Frankenhuis

et al. 2014

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Many recent evolutionary psychology and human behavioral ecology studies have tested hypotheses by examining correlations between variables measured at a group level (e.g., state, country, continent). In such analyses, variables collected for each aggregation are often taken to be representative of the individuals present within them, and relationships between such variables are presumed to reflect individual-level processes. There are multiple reasons to exercise caution when doing so, including: (1) the ecological fallacy, whereby relationships observed at the aggregate level do not accurately represent individual-level processes; (2) non-independence of data points, which violates assumptions of the inferential techniques used in null hypothesis testing; and (3) cross-cultural non-equivalence of measurement (differences in construct validity between groups). We provide examples of how each of these gives rise to problems in the context of testing evolutionary hypotheses about human behavior, and we offer some suggestions for future research.Keywords Ecological fallacy . Cross-cultural research . Research methods . Simpson's paradox . Non-independence . Measurement equivalence Many hypothesis-testing techniques used by evolutionary behavioral scientists involve examining degrees of covariation between two or more variables and making inferences based on such relationships (e.g., analysis of variance, Pearson correlation). This approach may be applied to a number of different research designs that examine variation at different, hierarchically organized levels (e.g., individuals versus groups;

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“…As expected we have found different TMT scores between the present study and those reported by other published studies. Incomparability of samples and administration differences were the most likely factors accounting for differences when a cross-cultural comparison of test results is [34] [35].…”

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The Trail Making Test in Morocco: Normative Data Stratified by Age and Level of Education

Oumellal¹,

Faris²,

Benabdeljlil³

2018

OJMP

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The purpose of this study is to design a Moroccan Trail Making Test B; explore the effects of age, education and gender on the performance of the Trail Making Test (TMT); and provide normative information in Moroccan subjects. Our normalization study was conducted on 348 subjects (156 female and 192 male). The subjects were classified into four groups based on age (18 -39 years, 40 -59 years, 60 -69 years and ≥70 years), and three groups based on educational level (3 -6 years, 7 -10 years and ≥11 years). The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics through SPSS. The results displayed that increasing age and decreasing levels of education significantly result in a decreased performance on the Trail A, Moroccan Trail B and English Trail B. Only 229 bilingual subjects among the 348 initial subjects completed both versions of Trail B. There was no significant difference on performance between Moroccan Trail B and English Trail B for these subjects.

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Bias and equivalence in cross-cultural assessment: an overview

Cited by 727 publications

References 61 publications

Kama Muta: Similar Emotional Responses to Touching Videos Across the United States, Norway, China, Israel, and Portugal

Kama Muta: Similar Emotional Responses to Touching Videos Across the United States, Norway, China, Israel, and Portugal

What Can Cross-Cultural Correlations Teach Us about Human Nature?

The Trail Making Test in Morocco: Normative Data Stratified by Age and Level of Education

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