Cognitive interviewing and factor-analytic techniques: a mixed method approach to validity of survey items measuring national identity

Latcheva, Rossalina

doi:10.1007/s11135-009-9285-0

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“…First, respondents in both countries had issues with the word “pride” (Latcheva 2011; Meitinger and Behr 2016). Second, German respondents struggled with the high complexity of terms, such as “social security system” (Meitinger and Behr 2016).…”

Section: The Concepts Of Constructive Patriotism and Nationalismmentioning

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Meitinger

2017

Public Opinion Quarterly

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Cross-national data production in social science research has increased dramatically in recent decades. Assessing the comparability of data is necessary before drawing substantive conclusions that are based on cross-national data. Researchers assessing data comparability typically use either quantitative methods such as multigroup confirmatory factor analysis or qualitative methods such as online probing. Because both methods have complementary strengths and weaknesses, this study applies both multigroup confirmatory factor analysis and online probing in a mixed-methods approach to assess the comparability of constructive patriotism and nationalism, two important concepts in the study of national identity. Previous measurement invariance tests failed to achieve scalar measurement invariance, which prohibits a cross-national comparison of latent means (Davidov 2009). The arrival of the 2013 ISSP Module on National Identity has encouraged a reassessment of both constructs and a push to understand why scalar invariance cannot be achieved. Using the example of constructive patriotism and nationalism, this study demonstrates how the combination of multigroup confirmatory factor analysis and online probing can uncover and explain issues related to cross-national comparability.

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Meitinger

2017

Public Opinion Quarterly

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“…It is not clear that the form of national identification found in such a country as Canada is directly comparable with that found in Japan. For example, a study in Austria indicates that respondents do not understand the question items designed to measure national identification in the ISSP National Identity module (Latcheva ). Another study has shown how the meanings of civic and ethnic national identities vary across countries (Reskens and Hooghe ).…”

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Globalisation and the decline of national identity? An exploration across sixty‐three countries

Ariely

2012

Nations and Nationalism

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The relationship between globalisation and national identity is puzzling. While some observers have found that globalisation reduces people's identification with their nation, others have reached the opposite conclusion. This article explores this conundrum by examining the relationship between globalisation and people's feelings towards national identity. Using data from the International Social Survey Program National Identity II () and the World Values Survey (), it analyses these relations across sixty‐three countries. Employing a multilevel approach, it investigates how a country's level of globalisation is related to its public perceptions towards different dimensions of national identity. The results suggest that a country's level of globalisation is not related to national identification or nationalism but it is related negatively to patriotism, the willingness to fight for the country and ethnic conceptions of membership in the nation. An examination of alternative explanations indicates that globalisation has a distinct impact on national identity.

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“…However, in comparative research, the issue of comparability across countries must be addressed (Davidov et al, 2014a ). Respondents in different countries may understand survey questions in various ways (Latcheva, 2011 ; Braun et al, 2013 ) or respond in systematically different ways to the same questions (Harkness et al, 2010 ). This may lead to biased means, factor loadings and regression coefficients.…”

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The comparability of the universalism value over time and across countries in the European Social Survey: exact vs. approximate measurement invariance

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Over the last decades, large international datasets such as the European Social Survey (ESS), the European Value Study (EVS) and the World Value Survey (WVS) have been collected to compare value means over multiple time points and across many countries. Yet analyzing comparative survey data requires the fulfillment of specific assumptions, i.e., that these values are comparable over time and across countries. Given the large number of groups that can be compared in repeated cross-national datasets, establishing measurement invariance has been, however, considered unrealistic. Indeed, studies which did assess it often failed to establish higher levels of invariance such as scalar invariance. In this paper we first introduce the newly developed approximate approach based on Bayesian structural equation modeling (BSEM) to assess cross-group invariance over countries and time points and contrast the findings with the results from the traditional exact measurement invariance test. BSEM examines whether measurement parameters are approximately (rather than exactly) invariant. We apply BSEM to a subset of items measuring the universalism value from the Portrait Values Questionnaire (PVQ) in the ESS. The invariance of this value is tested simultaneously across 15 ESS countries over six ESS rounds with 173,071 respondents and 90 groups in total. Whereas, the use of the traditional approach only legitimates the comparison of latent means of 37 groups, the Bayesian procedure allows the latent mean comparison of 73 groups. Thus, our empirical application demonstrates for the first time the BSEM test procedure on a particularly large set of groups.

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Cognitive interviewing and factor-analytic techniques: a mixed method approach to validity of survey items measuring national identity

Abstract: Multi-method approach, Cognitive interviewing, Exploratory and confirmatory analysis, National identity, Validity, ISSP,

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