Institute of Sociology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic.
Soc Sci Res. 2020 Feb;86:102369. doi: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2019.102369. Epub 2019 Oct 12.
Survey-based measures of subjective well-being are increasingly often analyzed cross-culturally. However, international comparison of these measures requires measurement invariance. Therefore, the major goal of this study is to investigate the cross-country and cross-time comparability of the 4-item positive and 7-item negative affect scales used in European Social Survey Round 3 (2006) and Round 6 (2012). This study applies both the traditional exact and the more recent Bayesian approximate approach to assess whether the affect scales are measurement invariant. The approximate approach detected several non-invariant items that are problematic for cross-national comparison and should be dropped from the scales. Consequently, measurement invariance was established in all countries over the two rounds for the reduced scales, allowing researchers to meaningfully compare their latent mean scores and the relationships with other theoretical constructs of interest. Thus, the study highlights the advantages of using multiple indicators and the necessity of measurement invariance testing in subjective well-being research.
基于调查的主观幸福感衡量指标越来越多地被进行跨文化分析。然而，这些衡量指标的国际比较需要具有测量不变性。因此，本研究的主要目的是调查在欧洲社会调查第 3 轮（2006 年）和第 6 轮（2012 年）中使用的 4 项积极情绪和 7 项消极情绪量表在跨国和跨时间上的可比性。本研究同时应用传统的精确和最近的贝叶斯近似方法来评估这些情绪量表是否具有测量不变性。近似方法检测到了几个对跨国比较有问题的非不变项目，这些项目应从量表中删除。因此，在两轮调查中，所有国家都为简化后的量表建立了测量不变性，从而允许研究人员有意义地比较其潜在的平均得分，以及与其他感兴趣的理论结构的关系。因此，本研究强调了在主观幸福感研究中使用多个指标和进行测量不变性检验的优势。
