The factor structure and measurement invariance of the daily spiritual experiences scale
The current study has two main goals: (a) to identify a factor structure of the Daily Spiritual Experiences Scale (DSES) on a large archival data, collected from 1,325 adults in the United States (709 women, 616 men) by the U.S. General Social Survey in 2004 and (b) to examine the measurement invari...
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| Type de support: | Numérique/imprimé Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
[2016]
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The international journal for the psychology of religion
Année: 2016, Volume: 26, Numéro: 3, Pages: 240-251 |
| Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
Expérience religieuse
/ Psychométrie
/ Analyse factorielle
/ Ensemble invariant
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| RelBib Classification: | AE Psychologie de la religion AG Vie religieuse ZD Psychologie |
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| Édition parallèle: | Électronique
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| Résumé: | The current study has two main goals: (a) to identify a factor structure of the Daily Spiritual Experiences Scale (DSES) on a large archival data, collected from 1,325 adults in the United States (709 women, 616 men) by the U.S. General Social Survey in 2004 and (b) to examine the measurement invariance of the 16 DSES items between women and men in the same data to see whether any of the items are favoring or biased toward either women or men. The one-factor confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) model fit our data better than the two-factor CFA models because of high correlations between the two factors (r > .90). The fit of the one-factor CFA to our sample data was improved when we specified seven correlated residuals suggested by overlapping item content and large modification indices. The ensuing measurement invariance testing of the one-factor CFA model with seven correlated residuals supported full measurement invariance of factor loadings, thresholds, and residual variances, as well as factor variances between the women and the men. Yet the factor mean for the women was .841 units (Cohen’s d = .496) higher than it was for the men, indicating that higher levels of daily spiritual experiences for women reported in gender comparison studies in the United States are not likely to be an artifact of bias in the questionnaire. |
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| Description: | "Volume 26, Numbers 1-4 2016" sind in einem Heft erschienen |
| ISSN: | 1050-8619 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: The international journal for the psychology of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/10508619.2015.1029404 |