Department of Educational Leadership and Counseling Psychology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164-2136, USA.
J Pers Soc Psychol. 2011 Nov;101(5):1068-89. doi: 10.1037/a0025290.
Measurement invariance is a prerequisite for confident cross-cultural comparisons of personality profiles. Multigroup confirmatory factor analysis was used to detect differential item functioning (DIF) in factor loadings and intercepts for the Revised NEO Personality Inventory (P. T. Costa, Jr., & R. R. McCrae, 1992) in comparisons of college students in the United States (N = 261), Philippines (N = 268), and Mexico (N = 775). About 40%-50% of the items exhibited some form of DIF and item-level noninvariance often carried forward to the facet level at which scores are compared. After excluding DIF items, some facet scales were too short or unreliable for cross-cultural comparisons, and for some other facets, cultural mean differences were reduced or eliminated. The results indicate that considerable caution is warranted in cross-cultural comparisons of personality profiles.
测量不变性是对人格档案进行跨文化自信比较的前提。多群组验证性因素分析用于检测大学生在修订版 NEO 人格量表（P. T. Costa，Jr. 和 R. R. McCrae，1992）中的因子负荷和截距的差异功能（DIF），这些大学生来自美国（N=261）、菲律宾（N=268）和墨西哥（N=775）。大约 40％-50％的项目表现出某种形式的 DIF，并且项目水平的非不变性通常会传递到进行比较的方面水平。在排除 DIF 项目后，一些方面量表对于跨文化比较来说太短或不可靠，对于其他一些方面，文化均值差异减少或消除。结果表明，在人格档案的跨文化比较中需要相当谨慎。
