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Measurement invariance of Personal Well-Being Index (PWI-8) across 26 countries
Magdalena Zemojtel-Piotrowska (Zemojtel-Piotrowska, M.); Jaroslaw P. Piotrowski (Piotrowski, J. P.); Jan Cieciuch (Cieciuch, J.); Byron G. Adams (Adams, B. G.); Evgeny N. Osin (Osin, E. N.); Rahkman Ardi (Ardi, R.); Sergiu Baltatescu (Baltatescu, S.); Arbinda Lal Bhomi (Bhomi, A. L.); Amanda Clinton (Clinton, A.); Gisela T. de Clunie (de Clunie, G. T.); Carla Esteves (Esteves, C.); Valdiney Gouveia (Gouveia, V.); Ashraf Hosseini (Hosseini, A.); Hooria Seyedhosseini Ghaheh (Ghaheh, H. S.); Narine Khachatryan (Khachatryan, N.); Shanmukh Vasant Kamble (Kamble, S. V.); Anna Kawula (Kawula, A.); Kadi Liik (Liik, K.); Eva Letovancova (Letovancova, E.); Sara Malo Cerrato (Malo Cerrato, S.); Carles Alsinet Mora (Mora, C. A.); Sofya Nartova-Bochaver (Nartova-Bochaver, S.); Marija Nikolic (Nikolic, M.); Joonha Park (Park, J.); Elena Paspalanova (Paspalanova, E.); Gyozo Pék (Pék, G.); Joanna Rózycka-Tran (Rózycka-Tran, J.); Ha Truong Thi Khanh (Truong Thi Khanh, H.); Takashi Tsubakita (Tsubakita, T.); Christin-Melanie Vauclair (Vauclair, C.-M.); Anna Wlodarczyk (Wlodarczyk, A.); John Maltby (Maltby, J.); et al.
Journal Title
Journal of Happiness Studies
Year (definitive publication)
2017
Language
English
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Netherlands
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Abstract
This report examines the measurement invariance of the Personal Well-being Index with 8 items (PWI-8). University students (N = 5731) from 26 countries completed the measure either through paper and pencil or electronic mode. We examined uni-dimensional structure of PWI and performed a Multi-group CFA to assess the measurement invariance across the 26 countries, using conventional approach and the alignment procedure. The findings provide evidence of configural and partial metric invariance, as well as partial scalar invariance across samples. The findings suggest that PWI-8 can be used to examine correlates of life satisfaction across all included countries, however it is impossible to compare raw scores across countries.
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Keywords
Cross-cultural studies,Measurement invariance,Personal well-being index
Fields of Science and Technology Classification
  • Psychology - Social Sciences
  • Other Social Sciences - Social Sciences
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Funding Reference Funding Entity
2014/14/M/HS6/00919 National Science Centre, Poland
UID/PSI/03125/2013 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Publication Identifiers
cv-prod-id-2108902
cv-prod-id-2108902
WOS:000415221000007
000415221000007
2-s2.0-84986321443
10.1007/s10902-016-9795-0
2-s2.0-84986321443
10.1007/s10902-016-9795-0
000415221000007
http://hdl.handle.net/10071/15004
2-s2.0-84986321443
1389-4978
ci-pub-36967
http://hdl.handle.net/10071/15004
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2016
Springer
Web of Science©; Scopus;
1389-4978 (print)
1573-7780 (online)
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