Cross-Cultural Analysis

Methods and Applications, Second Edition
Herausgeber: Davidov, Eldad; Billiet, Jaak; Schmidt, Peter

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book presents the latest strategies and methodological developments for the analysis of cross-cultural data. Internationally prominent researchers from a variety of fields explain how the methods work and how to apply them.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 684
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 37mm
• Gewicht: 1080g
• ISBN-13: 9781138670648
• ISBN-10: 1138670642
• Artikelnr.: 57061994

Autorenporträt

Eldad Davidov is Professor of Sociology at the University of Cologne, Germany and the University of Zurich, Switzerland Peter Schmidt is Professor Emeritus of Methodology of Social Research at the University of Giessen and Humboldt Research Fellow of the Polish Foundation for Basic Research Jaak Billiet is Professor Emeritus at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Bart Meuleman is Associate Professor and head of department at the Centre for Sociological Research (CeSO) at the University of Leuven (Belgium)

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Peter Schmidt, Eldad Davidov, Jaak Billiet, and Bart Meuleman
Section I: MGCFA and MGSEM Techniques 1. Capturing Bias in Structural
Equation Modeling Fons J.R. van de Vijver 2. Evaluating Change in Social
and Political Trust in Europe Nick Allum, Sanna Read, and Patrick Sturgis
3. Methodological Issues in Using Structural Equation Models for Testing
Differential Item Functioning Jaehoon Lee, Todd D. Little, and Kristopher
J. Preacher 4. Estimation and Comparison of Latent Means Across Cultures
Holger Steinmetz 5. Biased Latent Variable Mean Comparisons due to
Measurement Non-Invariance: A Simulation Study Alain de Beuckelaer and
Gilbert Swinnen 6. Testing the Invariance of Values in the Benelux
Countries with the European Social Survey: Accounting for Ordinality Eldad
Davidov, Georg Datler, Peter Schmidt, and Shalom Schwartz 7. Religious
Involvement: Its Relation to Values and Social Attitudes. A Simultaneous
Test of Measurement and Structural Models Across European Countries Bart
Meuleman and Jaak Billiet 8. Measurement Equivalence of the Dispositional
Resistance to Change Scale Shaul Oreg et al. 9. Measurement Equivalence
Testing 2.0 William M. van der Veld and Willem E. Saris Section II:
Multilevel Analysis 10. Perceived Economic Threat and Anti-Immigration
Attitudes: Effects of Immigrant Group Size and Economic Conditions
Revisited Bart Meuleman 11. A Multilevel Regression Analysis on Work Ethic
Hermann Dülmer 12. Multilevel Structural Equation Modeling for
Cross-cultural Research: Exploring Resampling Methods to Overcome Small
Sample Size Problems Remco Feskens and Joop Hox 13. Explaining
Cross-National Measurement Inequivalence: A Bayesian Multilevel CFA with
Random Loadings Bart Meuleman and Elmar Schlüter Section III: Latent Class
Analysis (LCA) 14. Testing for Measurement Invariance with Latent Class
Analysis Milo Kankara, Guy Moors, and Jeroen K. Vermunt 15. A Multiple
Group Latent Class Analysis of Religious Orientations in Europe Pascal
Siegers 16. Testing for Invariance of Latent Classes: Group-as-Covariate
Approach Maksim Rudnev Section IV: Item Response Theory 17. Using a
Differential Item Functioning Approach to Investigate Measurement
Invariance Rianne Janssen 18. Using the Mixed Rasch Model in the
Comparative Analysis of Attitudes Markus Quandt 19. Random Item Effects
Modeling for Cross-National Survey Data Jean-Paul Fox and A. Josine
Verhagen Section V: New and Emerging Topics in Cross-Cultural Analysis 20.
Exact and Bayesian Approximate Measurement Invariance Daniel Seddig and
Heinz Leitgöb 21. Alignment Optimization: Estimation of the Most
Trustworthy Means in Cross-Cultural Studies even in the Presence of
Noninvariance Jan Cieciuch, Eldad Davidov, and Peter Schmidt 22.
Sensitivity Analysis Daniel L. Oberski 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) Michael Braun and Timothy P. Johnson