Adjustment for Acquiescence in the Assessment of the Construct Equivalence of Likert-Type Score Items

By Jerry Welkenhuysen-Gybels, J. Billiet, Bart Cambré. 2003

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Sociology and Political Science

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Survey-Driven Romanticism (2010, background): “Haberstroh et al. note that ignoring these differences risks " misinterpreting cultural differences in the question-answering process as substantive differences in the phenomenon under study " (p. 328; also see Welkenhuysen-Gybels et al. 2003 for an interesting discussion).”
Response Styles in Survey Research: A Literature Review of Antecedents, Consequences, and Remedies (2013, background): “For example, Welkenhuysen-Gybels, Billiet, and Cambré (2003) and Kankaras̆ and Moors (2011) demonstrate that the results of measurement equivalence tests can change substantially when adjustments are made respectively for ARS and ERS.”
Public demand for social investment: new supporting coalitions for welfare state reform in Western Europe? (2018, methodology): “…Likert scales as ordinal rather than continuous and use a polychoric correlation matrix as input for the principal component factor analysis (Welkenhuysen-Gybels et al. 2003), the findings remain unchanged. iv Sweden also stands out because early retirement loads negatively on the “passive…”
Relaxing Measurement Invariance in Cross-National Consumer Research Using a Hierarchical IRT Model (2007, methodology): “Consumer researchers are becoming increasingly inter-ested in testing their measures and theories in an international context (Bagozzi 1994; Durvasula et al. 1993; Wong, Rindfleisch, and Burroughs 2003).”
Cross-National Adolescent Multidimensional Life Satisfaction Reports: Analyses of Mean Scores and Response Style Differences (2008, background): “Clarke, 2000; Van der Kloot et al., 1985; Welkenhuysen-Gybels et al., 2003 ) and adolescents (e.g., Bachman and O’Malley, 1984; Chen et al., 1995).”
Asking Good Survey Questions (2013, background): “…range of approaches of how to remove bias of such kind has been suggested in the past (Cunningham, Cunningham, and Green 1977; Greenleaf 1992a, 1992b; Heide and Gronhaug 1992; Watson 1992; Van de Vijver and Poortinga 2002; Welkenhuysen-Gybels, Billiet, and Cambré 2003; Dolnicar and Grün 2007c).”
The Relation Between Culture and Response Styles (2005, background): “Welkenhuysen-Gybels, Billiet, and Cambre (2003), for example, have documented the importance of controlling for acquiescence bias when evaluating construct equivalence across multiple groups.”