Why the Items versus Parcels Controversy Needn’t Be One
By T. Little, Mijke Rhemtulla, Kimberly Gibson, A. Schoemann. Psychological methods, 2013
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The use of item parcels has been a matter of debate since the earliest use of factor analysis and structural equation modeling. Here, we review the arguments that have been levied both for and against the use of parcels, and discuss the relevance of these arguments in light of the building body of empirical evidence investigating their performance. We discuss the many advantages of parcels that some researchers find attractive and highlight, too, the potential problems that ill-informed use can incur. We argue that no absolute pro or con stance is warranted. Parcels are an analytic tool like any other. There are circumstances in which parceling is useful and times when parcels would not be used. We emphasize the precautions that should be taken when creating item parcels and interpreting model results based on parcels. Finally, we review and compare several proposed strategies for parcel building, and suggest directions for further research.
Subfields: Strategy and Management
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- Organizational Support and Adaptive Performance: The Revolving Structural Relationships between Job Crafting, Work Engagement, and Adaptive Performance (2020, methodology): “Also, since the extant empirical literature has validated all the measures used in this study, we employed the facet-representative parceling approach for multidimensional constructs as an item-parceling technique to represent the corresponding latent constructs optimally [45].”