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Nominal factor analysis of situational judgment tests: evaluation of latent dimensionality and factorial invariance
| العنوان: | Nominal factor analysis of situational judgment tests: evaluation of latent dimensionality and factorial invariance |
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| المؤلفون: | Revuelta Menéndez, Javier, Franco Martínez, Alicia, Ximénez Gómez, María Carmen |
| المساهمون: | UAM. Departamento de Psicología Básica, UAM. Departamento de Psicología Social y Metodología |
| بيانات النشر: | SAGE Journals |
| سنة النشر: | 2024 |
| المجموعة: | Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM): Biblos-e Archivo |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | situational judgment test, nominal factor analysis, multidimensional nominal categories model, multigroup factor analysis, Monte Carlo simulation, gender stereotypes, Psicología |
| الوصف: | Situational judgment tests have gained popularity in educational and psychological measurement and are widely used in personnel assessment. A situational judgment item presents a hypothetical scenario and a list of actions, and the individuals are asked to select their most likely action for that scenario. Because actions have no explicit order, the item generates nominal responses consisting of the actions selected by the individuals. This article shows how to factor-analyze the nominal responses originated from such a test, including the estimation of the number of latent factors and a factor invariance analysis in a multiple group design. The method consists of applying the MNCM, a multidimensional extension of the nominal categories model by Bock. The article includes the results of two studies: (1) a simulation study about Type-I error rate, statistical power, and recovery of the parameters in a multigroup factorial invariance design and (2) a real data example using responses to a situational judgment test measuring gender stereotypes to illustrate the approach. Results suggest the use of the Akaike information criterion, Bayesian information criterion, and corrected Bayesian information criterion indices to guide the selection of the number of factors with nominal responses. All the analyses are conducted using the computer program Mplus. The code is included as Supplemental Material (available online) for the readers so that they can adapt it to their own purposes ; The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This research was supported by the grant PGC2018-093838-B-I00 from the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovacion y Universidades. Simulations have been run using the resources of the Center for Scientic Computation (Centro de Computacion Cientifica, CCC-UAM) at the UAM |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article in journal/newspaper |
| وصف الملف: | application/pdf |
| اللغة: | English |
| Relation: | Educational and Psychological Measurement; https://doi.org/10.1177/0013164421994321; Gobierno de España. PGC2018-093838-B-I00; Educational and Psychological Measurement 81.6 (2021): 1054-1088; 0013-1644 (print); 0013-1644 (online); http://hdl.handle.net/10486/709736; 1054; 1088; 81 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0013164421994321 |
| الاتاحة: | http://hdl.handle.net/10486/709736 https://doi.org/10.1177/0013164421994321 |
| Rights: | © The Author(s) 2021 ; openAccess |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.A67540B0 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0013164421994321 |
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