Cross-Cultural Analysis: Methods and Applications [2nd ed.] 9781315537078, 1315537079

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Cross-Cultural Analysis: Methods and Applications [2nd ed.]
 9781315537078, 1315537079

Table of contents :
Cover
Title
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Contents
About the Contributors
Preface
Section I MGCFA and MGSEM Techniques
Chapter 1 Capturing Bias in Structural Equation Modeling
Chapter 2 Evaluating Change in Social and Political Trust in Europe
Chapter 3 Methodological Issues in Using Structural Equation Models for Testing Differential Item Functioning
Chapter 4 Estimation and Comparison of Latent Means Across Cultures
Chapter 5 Biased Latent Variable Mean Comparisons Due to Measurement Noninvariance: A Simulation Study. Chapter 6 Testing the Invariance of Values in the Benelux Countries With the European Social Survey: Accounting for OrdinalityChapter 7 Religious Involvement: Its Relation to Values and Social Attitudes
Chapter 8 Measurement Equivalence of the Dispositional Resistance to Change Scale
Chapter 9 Measurement Equivalence Testing 2.0
Section II Multilevel Analysis
Chapter 10 Perceived Economic Threat and Anti-Immigration Attitudes: Effects of Immigrant Group Size and Economic Conditions Revisited
Chapter 11 A Multilevel Regression Analysis on Work Ethic. Chapter 12 Multilevel Structural Equation Modeling for Cross-cultural Research: Exploring Resampling Methods to Overcome Small Sample Size ProblemsChapter 13 Explaining Cross-National Measurement Inequivalence: A Bayesian Multilevel CFA With Random Loadings
Section III Latent Class Analysis (LCA)
Chapter 14 Testing for Measurement Invariance With Latent Class Analysis
Chapter 15 A Multiple Group Latent Class Analysis of Religious Orientations in Europe
Chapter 16 Testing for Invariance of Latent Classes: Group-as-Covariate Approach
Section IV Item Response Theory (IRT). Chapter 17 Using a Differential Item Functioning Approach to Investigate Measurement InvarianceChapter 18 Using the Mixed Rasch Model in the Comparative Analysis of Attitudes
Chapter 19 Random Item Effects Modeling for Cross-National Survey Data
Section V New and Emerging Topics in Cross-Cultural Analysis
Chapter 20 Exact and Bayesian Approximate Measurement Invariance
Chapter 21 Alignment Optimization: Estimation of the Most Trustworthy Means in Cross-Cultural Studies even in the Presence of Noninvariance
Chapter 22 Sensitivity Analysis. Chapter 23 How Should Immigrants Adapt to Their Country of Residence? A Mixed Methods Approach to Evaluate the International Applicability of a Question From the German General Social Survey (ALLBUS)Author Index
Subject Index.

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