Assessing Measurement Equivalence of the English and Spanish Versions on an Employee Attitude Survey Using Multigroup Analysis in Structural Equation Modeling.

The study utilized the covariance structure comparison methodology - Multigroup Analysis in Structural Equation Modeling - evaluating measurement equivalence of English and Spanish versions of an employee opinion survey. The concept of measurement equivalence was defined as consisting of four components: sample equivalence, semantic equivalence, conceptual equivalence and scalar equivalence. The results revealed that the two language versions of the survey exhibited acceptable measurement equivalence across five survey dimensions Communications, Supervision, Leadership, Job Content & Satisfaction and Company Image & Commitment. Contrary to the study second hypothesis, there was no meaningful difference in opinion scores between English-speaking and Spanish-speaking respondents on the latent construct of Job Content & Satisfaction.

Grantor dc:publisher

University of North Texas

Year dc:date

2003

Author dc:creator

• Koulikov, Mikhail

Contributors dc:contributor

• Beyerlein, Michael
• Allen, David D.

• Employee attitude surveys -- Translating.
• Multivariate analysis.
• cross-cultural
• measurement equivalence
• Spanish versions
• survey
• translation

Statement dc:rights

• Public
• Copyright
• Koulikov, Mikhail
• Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.

Language dc:language

English

Identifier

oclc: 53333737
https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc4315/
ark: ark:/67531/metadc4315

OAI identifier oai:identifier

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