Trust in American Government: Assessing the Longitudinal Measurement Equivalence in the ANES, 1964-2008

Perhaps no other public opinion topic has received more attention from academics, politicians, and the media than the decline of trust in American national government. Public trust in the Leviathan on the Potomac has declined from about seventy-five…

Global self-worth and five domains of self-esteem (scholastic competence, athletic competence, physical appearance, behavioral conduct, social acceptance) were tested for measurement equivalence in a sample of Anglo American, Mexican American,…

If measurement invariance does not hold over 2 or more measurement occasions, differences in observed scores are not directly interpretable. Golembiewski, Billingsley, and Yeager (1976) identified 2 types of psychometric differences over time as…

This supplemental issue of Medical Care is devoted to issues of measurement equivalence in diverse populations, particularly populations characterized by health disparities. Five of the articles in this supplement assess differential item…

Despite increased awareness of practical issues in multinational data collection, few studies have addressed the issue of measurement equivalence across Western and Eastern cultures, especially using measures of job attitudes. Therefore, the…

Though relatively understudied, trauma exposure and resulting posttraumatic stress symptoms are common in college students. Web-based surveys allow for private, cost-effective, and time-efficient assessment of trauma and its sequelae in this at-risk…

Increasing diversity among families in the United States often necessitates the translation of common measures into various languages. However, even when great care is taken during translations, empirical evaluations of measurement equivalence are…

Generalized trust features as the most prominent attitudinal element of social capital, and as such the concept is widely used in comparative research. In this article investigate the cross-cultural equivalence of the three-item scale on generalized…

An increasing number of organizational researchers examine the effects of ethnic identity and other-group orientation. In doing so, many use Phinney's (1992) Multigroup Ethnic Identity Measure (MEIM), which purportedly allows simultaneous assessment…

This paper offers a new methodological framework to guide researchers attempting to quantitatively assess how a pluralistic audience perceives a standardized television advertisement. Rasch (I960) measurement theory is introduced as an alternative…