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

H Leitgöb, D Seddig, T Asparouhov, D Behr… - Social science …, 2023 - Elsevier
This review summarizes the current state of the art of statistical and (survey) methodological
research on measurement (non) invariance, which is considered a core challenge for the …

New developments in measurement invariance testing: An overview and comparison of EFA-based approaches

P Sterner, K De Roover, D Goretzko - Structural Equation Modeling …, 2025 - Taylor & Francis
When comparing relations and means of latent variables, it is important to establish
measurement invariance (MI). Most methods to assess MI are based on confirmatory factor …

The dire disregard of measurement invariance testing in psychological science.

E Maassen, ED D'Urso, MALM Van Assen… - Psychological …, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
Self-report scales are widely used in psychology to compare means in latent constructs
across groups, experimental conditions, or time points. However, for these comparisons to …

Evaluating the measurement invariance of the Personality Inventory for DSM-5 (PID-5) in Black Americans and White Americans.

RM Bagby, JW Keeley, CC Williams… - Psychological …, 2022 - psycnet.apa.org
Abstract The Personality Inventory for the DSM-5 (PID-5) assesses the five pathological
personality trait domains that comprise the descriptive core of the DSM-5 Alternative Model …

Longitudinal reciprocal relations among reading, executive function, and social-emotional skills: Maybe not for all.

Z Zhang, P Peng - Journal of Educational Psychology, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
In this study, we investigated longitudinal reciprocal relations among reading, executive
function, and social-emotional skills in students from Grades 2 to 5, using the data set from …

The necessity of testing measurement invariance in cross-cultural research: Potential bias in cross-cultural comparisons with individualism–collectivism self-report …

D Lacko, J Čeněk, J Točík, A Avsec… - Cross-Cultural …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Individualism and collectivism are some of the most widely applied concepts in cultural and
cross-cultural research. They are commonly applied by scholars who use arithmetic means …

Continuous gender identity and economics

AA Brenøe, L Heursen, E Ranehill… - AEA Papers and …, 2022 - aeaweb.org
Economic research on gender largely focuses on biological sex, the binary classification as
either a “man” or “woman.” We investigate the value of incorporating a measure of …

Exploratory factor analysis trees: Evaluating measurement invariance between multiple covariates

P Sterner, D Goretzko - Structural Equation Modeling: A …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Measurement invariance (MI) describes the equivalence of a construct across groups. To be
able to meaningfully compare latent factor means between groups, it is crucial to establish …

Mixture multigroup factor analysis for unraveling factor loading noninvariance across many groups.

K De Roover, JK Vermunt, E Ceulemans - Psychological Methods, 2022 - psycnet.apa.org
Psychological research often builds on between-group comparisons of (measurements of)
latent variables; for instance, to evaluate cross-cultural differences in neuroticism or …

Finding clusters of groups with measurement invariance: Unraveling intercept non-invariance with mixture multigroup factor analysis

K De Roover - Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Comparisons of latent constructs across groups are ubiquitous in behavioral research and,
nowadays, often numerous groups are involved. Measurement invariance of the constructs …