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Título: | Measurement invariance of the meaning in life questionnaire across 17 countries |
Autor(es): | Schutte, Lusilda Brdar, Ingrid Wissing, Marié P. Tončić, Marko Araujo, Ulisses Carlquist, Erik Castro Solano, Alejandro Freire, Teresa Hernández-Pozo, María del Rocío Jose, Paul E. Martos, Tamás Nakamura, Jeanne Nuñez del Prado Chaves, Pamela Russo-Netzer, Pninit Singh, Kamlesh Slezackova, Alena Soosai-Nathan, Lawrence Unanue, Wenceslao Vella-Brodrick, Dianne A. Delle Fave, Antonella |
Palavras-chave: | Alignment optimization Cross-cultural measurement invariance Eudaimonic and hedonic happiness investigation (EHHI) Meaning in life questionnaire Measurement |
Data: | 2023 |
Editora: | Springer |
Revista: | Applied Research in Quality of Life |
Citação: | Schutte, L., Brdar, I., Wissing, M. P., Tončić, M., Araujo, U., Carlquist, E., … Delle Fave, A. (2023, March 29). Measurement Invariance of the Meaning in Life Questionnaire Across 17 Countries. Applied Research in Quality of Life. Springer Science and Business Media LLC. http://doi.org/10.1007/s11482-023-10150-7 |
Resumo(s): | The Meaning in Life Questionnaire assesses presence of and search for meaning in life. Although the questionnaire has shown promising psychometric properties in samples from diferent countries, the scale’s measurement invariance across a large number of nations has yet to be assessed. This study is aimed at addressing this gap, providing insight into how meaning in life is constructed and experienced across countries and into the extent to which cross-country comparisons can be made. A total of 3867 adult participants from 17 countries, aged 30–60, balanced by gender, and with at least secondary education, completed the questionnaire as part of the Eudaimonic and Hedonic Happiness Investigation. Single sample confrmatory factor analysis, multigroup confrmatory factor analysis, and alignment optimization were applied to investigate the scale’s performance across the samples. Good psychometric properties and high levels of approximate measurement invariance emerged for the Presence subscale after removal of item 9, the only reverse-phrased item. Performance of the Search subscale varied more across samples, suggesting caution in interpreting related results supporting approximate measurement invariance. The conceptualization of presence of meaning operationalized in the corresponding subscale (without item 9) appears consistent across countries, whereas search for meaning seems to be less universally homogenous and requires further exploration. Moreover, the Meaning in Life Questionnaire does not refect the conceptual distinction between “purpose” and “meaning” currently acknowledged by researchers. This issue should be further explored in studies addressing the scale’s performance across cultures. |
Tipo: | Artigo |
URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/1822/90983 |
DOI: | 10.1007/s11482-023-10150-7 |
ISSN: | 1871-2584 |
Arbitragem científica: | yes |
Acesso: | Acesso aberto |
Aparece nas coleções: | CIPsi - Artigos (Papers) |
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