Measurement Equivalence Across Subnational Groups: An Analysis of the Conception of Nationhood in Switzerland

Sarrasin, Oriane; Green, Eva G. T.; Berchtold, André; Davidov, Eldad

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“…The routine assessment of whether the underlying latent constructs meet the MI properties has increased considerably in all forms of comparative studies (i.e., cross-group/cultural/national or longitudinal) in recent years. Among others, these studies examined the cross-cultural properties of various measurements and scales such as nationhood and national identity (Davidov, 2009;Sarrasin et al, 2012), authoritarianism (Heyder and Schmidt, 2003), social trust (Coromina and Davidov, 2013;Freitag and Bauer, 2013;van der Veld and Saris, 2018), physical and mental health (e.g., Maskileyson et al, 2021a,b), attitudes toward immigration (e.g., Becker et al, 2020;Davidov et al, 2015;Davidov et al, 2018c;Munck et al, 2018), attitudes toward democracy (Ariely and Davidov, 2010;Davidov and Braun, 2012), left-right orientation (Weber, 2011), religiosity (e.g., Remizova et al, 2022 ageism (Seddig et al, 2020), gender role attitudes (e.g., Lomazzi, 2018;Seddig and Lomazzi, 2019), or basic human values (e.g., Cieciuch et al, 2014Cieciuch et al, , 2018Cieciuch et al, , 2019Davidov et al, 2008b;Davidov and Siegers, 2010). In addition, various special issues have been dedicated to the topic (e.g., Davidov et al, 2018a;Meitinger et al, 2020;Meuleman et al, 2018a,b;van de Schoot et al, 2015).…”

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Measurement invariance in the social sciences: Historical development, methodological challenges, state of the art, and future perspectives

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Seddig²,

Asparouhov³

et al. 2023

Social Science Research

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Measurement invariance in the social sciences: Historical development, methodological challenges, state of the art, and future perspectives

Leitgöb¹,

Seddig²,

Asparouhov³

et al. 2023

Social Science Research

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“…Measurement invariance methods have been applied to test the similarity of a broad array of concepts, among them immigration attitudes (e.g., Davidov, Meuleman, Billiet, & Schmidt, 2008;Sarrasin, Green, Berchtold, & Davidov, 2012). In contrast, whether the respondents' immigrant background affects the invariance of social and political attitudes has hardly received attention (for an exception see Kankaras & Moors, 2012).…”

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Does Survey Respondents’ Immigrant Background Affect the Measurement and Prediction of Immigration Attitudes? An Illustration in Two Steps

Sarrasin

Green

Fasel

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International Journal of Public Opinion Research

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While most survey research on immigration attitudes routinely excludes respondents with an immigrant background, empirical justifications for doing so are rarely provided. Yet it is crucial to examine whether respondents with an immigrant background can be included in the analysis, as excluding them with no further consideration would ignore the opinion of a considerable share of multicultural societies. With multigroup analyses on Swiss data we illustrated how to evaluate whether both the measurement and the prediction of immigration attitudes are invariant across natives and individuals with an immigrant background. The slight revealed differences did not justify the exclusion of respondents with an immigrant background. The paper concludes by discussing ways of addressing these differences in measurement and prediction. background. The paper concludes by discussing ways of addressing these differences in

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“…This may lead to biased means, factor loadings and regression coefficients. Therefore, the assumption of cross-cultural measurement invariance needs to be tested (Meredith, 1993 ; Vandenberg and Lance, 2000 ; Davidov and Siegers, 2010 ; Millsap, 2011 ; Sarrasin et al, 2012 ; van de Schoot et al, 2012 ; Davidov et al, 2014a ).…”

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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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Measurement Equivalence Across Subnational Groups: An Analysis of the Conception of Nationhood in Switzerland

Cited by 12 publications

References 28 publications

Measurement invariance in the social sciences: Historical development, methodological challenges, state of the art, and future perspectives

Measurement invariance in the social sciences: Historical development, methodological challenges, state of the art, and future perspectives

Does Survey Respondents’ Immigrant Background Affect the Measurement and Prediction of Immigration Attitudes? An Illustration in Two Steps

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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