Measurement invariance of the day reconstruction method: Results from the COURAGE in Europe Project
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UAM. Departamento de Psicología Social y Metodología; UAM. Departamento de Psiquiatría; Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Hospital Universitario de La Paz (IdiPAZ)Publisher
Springer VerlagDate
2015-08-18Citation
10.1007/s10902-015-9669-x
Journal of Happiness Studies 16.4 (2015): 1-49
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1389-4978; 1573-7780 (on line)DOI
10.1007/s10902-015-9669-xFunded by
The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Community’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement number 223071 (COURAGE in Europe), from the Instituto de Salud Carlos III-FIS research grants number PS09/00295 and PS09/01845, and from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation ACI-Promociona (ACI2009-1010). The study was supported by the Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Centro de Investigación Biomédica Red de Salud Mental (CIBERSAM), and the AGES-CM Programme (AGES-S2010/BMD-2422), B.O. is grateful to the Sara Borrell postdoctoral programme (reference no. CD12/00429) supported by the Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Spain.Project
Gobierno de España. ACI2009-1010; info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/223071; Comunidad de Madrid. S2010/BMD-2422/AGESEditor's Version
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10902-015-9669-xSubjects
Day Reconstruction Method; Measurement invariance; Multiple group confirmatory factor analysis; Subjective well-being; MedicinaNote
The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10902-015-9669-xRights
© Springer VerlagAbstract
Given the growing interest in the study of subjective well-being as a measure of social progress, instruments that produce valid and reliable scores and that can be used within and across countries are needed. The aim of the present study was to analyze the measurement equivalence of the Day Reconstruction Method in its brief version, using nationally representative samples from Finland, Poland, and Spain obtained within the COURAGE in Europe project. The goodness-of-fit of a two-correlated-factors model and the reliability of the scores obtained were assessed. Cross-country invariance was tested employing a multiple group confirmatory factor analysis, through sequential constraint imposition. In each country, measurement invariance was tested across time frames (morning, afternoon and evening) and days of the week (weekday and weekend). The results found support for the hypothesis of a two-correlated-factors (positive and negative affect) structure; the reliability of the positive, the negative and the net affect scores showed appropriate values. A high equivalence across the three national samples was found: all items except one showed strong measurement invariance indicating that respondents from Finland, Poland, and Spain attribute the same meaning to the latent construct under study, and the levels of the underlying items are equal in all three countries. Similar results were found for the measurement equivalence across time frames and days of the week. Our findings support the assumption of comparability across the different samples considered; in general, higher positive affect and lower negative affect were found in Finland, in the evening and at the weekend
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Google Scholar:Mellor-Marsá, Blanca
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Miret García, Marta
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Abad García, Francisco José
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Chatterji, Somnath
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Olaya, Beatriz
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Tobiasz-Adamczyk, Beata
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Koskinen, Seppo
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Leonardi, Matilde A.
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Haro, Josep Maria
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Ayuso Mateos, José Luis
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Caballero Díaz, Francisco Félix
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