Measurement Invariance of the SQWLi Instrument Over Time
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F68378025%3A_____%2F21%3A00545143" target="_blank" >RIV/68378025:_____/21:00545143 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://sreview.soc.cas.cz/artkey/csr-202103-0002_measurement-invariance-of-the-sqwli-instrument-over-time.php" target="_blank" >https://sreview.soc.cas.cz/artkey/csr-202103-0002_measurement-invariance-of-the-sqwli-instrument-over-time.php</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.13060/csr.2020.048" target="_blank" >10.13060/csr.2020.048</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Measurement Invariance of the SQWLi Instrument Over Time
Original language description
The SQWLi questionnaire was developed for the long-term measurement of subjectively perceived quality of working life. The aim of this study is to test the instrument's measurement invariance between 2009 and 2019 and determine whether - despite the modifications made to the instrument over the years - the results remain comparable. Data from eight representative surveys of the economically active population in the Czech Republic were analysed (total N = 6909) using the MG CFA method (configural, metric, and scalar invariance) and the alignment method (approximate measurement invariance). The findings from the MG CFA tests for measurement invariance indicate that the SQWLi instrument achieves configural and metric invariance over time but not full scalar invariance. Achieving a partial scalar invariance would be challenging because of the many high modification indices, therefore, an approximate measurement invariance approach, namely the Alignment Method, was applied. The results suggest that comparisons of latent means across all years can be made. Consequently, it is possible to make meaningful comparisons of overall indices of dimensions (batteries) and of more general domains. However, not all the individual items can be compared. The results confirm that the biggest risk of invariance is caused by conceptual changes to items and by substantial or frequent modifications to item wording. Conversely, the results also show that a conceptual change to an entire dimension may not necessarily cause any problem on the general level, and that a disruption of invariance caused by changes to the range of scales used can be rectified by means of their harmonisation ex post.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50401 - Sociology
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/EF16_013%2F0001796" target="_blank" >EF16_013/0001796: CSDA Research ? Research programme of the Czech Social Science Data Archive: The participation of the Czech Republic in the International Social Survey Programme, Research on Data Quality and Data Sources</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review
ISSN
0038-0288
e-ISSN
0038-0288
Volume of the periodical
57
Issue of the periodical within the volume
3
Country of publishing house
CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC
Number of pages
33
Pages from-to
343-375
UT code for WoS article
000686556200004
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85114094793