Measurement invariance of the brief multidimensional student’s life satisfaction scale among adolescents and emerging adults across 23 cultural contexts

There is hardly any cross-cultural research on the measurement invariance of the Brief Multidimensional Students’ Life Satisfaction Scales (BMSLSS). The current article evaluates the measurement invariance of the BMSLSS across cultural contexts. This cross-sectional study sampled 7,739 adolescents a...

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Main Authors: ABUBAKAR, Amina, et al, SIM, Samantha
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spelling sg-smu-ink.lkcsb_research-61312020-06-08T02:07:48Z Measurement invariance of the brief multidimensional student’s life satisfaction scale among adolescents and emerging adults across 23 cultural contexts ABUBAKAR, Amina et al, SIM, Samantha There is hardly any cross-cultural research on the measurement invariance of the Brief Multidimensional Students’ Life Satisfaction Scales (BMSLSS). The current article evaluates the measurement invariance of the BMSLSS across cultural contexts. This cross-sectional study sampled 7,739 adolescents and emerging adults in 23 countries. A multi-group confirmatory factor analysis showed a good fit of configural and partial measurement weights invariance models, indicating similar patterns and strengths in factor loading for both adolescents and emerging adults across various countries. We found insufficient evidence for scalar invariance in both the adolescents’ and the emerging adults’ samples. A multi-level confirmatory factor analysis indicated configural invariance of the structure at country and individual level. Internal consistency, evaluated by alpha and omega coefficients per country, yielded acceptable results. The translated BMSLSS across different cultural contexts presents good psychometric characteristics similar to what has been reported in the original scale, though scalar invariance remains problematic. Our results indicate that the BMSLSS forms a brief measure of life satisfaction, which has accrued substantial evidence of construct validity, thus suitable for use in cross-cultural surveys with adolescents and emerging adults, although evaluation of degree of invariance must be carried out to ensure its suitability for mean comparisons. 2016-02-01T08:00:00Z text application/pdf https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/5132 info:doi/10.1177/0734282915611284 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/6131/viewcontent/Measurement_Invariance__1_.pdf http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University BMLSS confirmatory factor analysis cross-cultural factor structure invariance Community-Based Learning Family, Life Course, and Society Sociology of Culture
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topic BMLSS
confirmatory factor analysis
cross-cultural
factor structure
invariance
Community-Based Learning
Family, Life Course, and Society
Sociology of Culture
spellingShingle BMLSS
confirmatory factor analysis
cross-cultural
factor structure
invariance
Community-Based Learning
Family, Life Course, and Society
Sociology of Culture
ABUBAKAR, Amina
et al,
SIM, Samantha
Measurement invariance of the brief multidimensional student’s life satisfaction scale among adolescents and emerging adults across 23 cultural contexts
description There is hardly any cross-cultural research on the measurement invariance of the Brief Multidimensional Students’ Life Satisfaction Scales (BMSLSS). The current article evaluates the measurement invariance of the BMSLSS across cultural contexts. This cross-sectional study sampled 7,739 adolescents and emerging adults in 23 countries. A multi-group confirmatory factor analysis showed a good fit of configural and partial measurement weights invariance models, indicating similar patterns and strengths in factor loading for both adolescents and emerging adults across various countries. We found insufficient evidence for scalar invariance in both the adolescents’ and the emerging adults’ samples. A multi-level confirmatory factor analysis indicated configural invariance of the structure at country and individual level. Internal consistency, evaluated by alpha and omega coefficients per country, yielded acceptable results. The translated BMSLSS across different cultural contexts presents good psychometric characteristics similar to what has been reported in the original scale, though scalar invariance remains problematic. Our results indicate that the BMSLSS forms a brief measure of life satisfaction, which has accrued substantial evidence of construct validity, thus suitable for use in cross-cultural surveys with adolescents and emerging adults, although evaluation of degree of invariance must be carried out to ensure its suitability for mean comparisons.
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author ABUBAKAR, Amina
et al,
SIM, Samantha
author_facet ABUBAKAR, Amina
et al,
SIM, Samantha
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title Measurement invariance of the brief multidimensional student’s life satisfaction scale among adolescents and emerging adults across 23 cultural contexts
title_short Measurement invariance of the brief multidimensional student’s life satisfaction scale among adolescents and emerging adults across 23 cultural contexts
title_full Measurement invariance of the brief multidimensional student’s life satisfaction scale among adolescents and emerging adults across 23 cultural contexts
title_fullStr Measurement invariance of the brief multidimensional student’s life satisfaction scale among adolescents and emerging adults across 23 cultural contexts
title_full_unstemmed Measurement invariance of the brief multidimensional student’s life satisfaction scale among adolescents and emerging adults across 23 cultural contexts
title_sort measurement invariance of the brief multidimensional student’s life satisfaction scale among adolescents and emerging adults across 23 cultural contexts
publisher Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
publishDate 2016
url https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/5132
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