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  title info:
    title: Developing cross-cultural measurement
  name:
    name part: Tran, Thanh V.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    place:
      place term: Oxford
    place:
      place term: New York
    publisher: Oxford University Press
    date issued: 2009
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xi, 155 pages) : illustrations
  abstract: This book aims to provide an overview of issues and techniques relevant to the development of cross-cultural measures and to provide the readers with a step-by-step approach to the assessment of cross-cultural equivalence of measurement properties. The readers are introduced to an overview of the definitions of culture and a brief discussion of cross-cultural anthropology, psychology, sociology, and political science and the influences of these fields on social work. The author describes the process of cross-cultural instrument development, from formulating the research aims to the assessments of cross-cultural measurement properties. There are guides and recommendations for building a cross-cultural research support team for various critical tasks. The book addresses the issues of adopting and adapting existing research instruments. The processes and issues of cross-cultural translation and assessments are presented and discussed in detail. The book offers a discussion of the foundation of measurement theories and the entire process of instrument development from the definitions of abstract concepts, the construction of observed indicators, and assessment of the validity and reliability of the new instruments. The author demonstrates the application of item distribution analysis, internal consistency analysis, and exploratory factor analysis as a preliminary assessment of cross-cultural equivalence of research instruments. In addition, the book explains and illustrates the application of confirmatory factor analysis and multisample confirmatory factor analysis to evaluate the factor structure and testing of cross-cultural measurement invariance.
  table of contents: 1 Overview of Cross-Cultural Research; 2 Process of Cross-Cultural Instrument Development and Assessment; 3 Preliminary Steps in Cross-Cultural Instrument Development; 4 Adopting or Adapting Existing Instruments; 5 Developing New Instruments; 6 Assessing Measurement Equivalence; 7 Testing Cross-Cultural Measurement Invariance: LISREL Applications; 8 Concluding Comments: Measurement in Cross-Cultural Research; References; Index.
  note: Thanh V. Tran.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-150) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Social work with minorities
    geographic: United States
    topic: Methodology
  subject:
    topic: Cultural awareness
    geographic: United States
    topic: Methodology
  subject:
    topic: Cross-cultural studies
  subject:
    topic: Social Work
    topic: methods
  subject:
    topic: Cross-Cultural Comparison
  subject:
    topic: Behavioral Research
  subject:
    topic: Service social aux minorités
    geographic: États-Unis
    topic: Méthodologie
  subject:
    topic: Sensibilisation aux cultures
    geographic: États-Unis
    topic: Méthodologie
  subject:
    topic: Études transculturelles
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE
    topic: Social Work
  subject:
    topic: Cross-cultural studies
  subject:
    geographic: United States
  classification: HV3176 .T714 2009eb
  classification: 361.308/0973
  classification: HV 3176 T772d 2009
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