Cultural Measurement Equivalence

In cross-cultural research, understanding and interpreting the influence of varying individual perspectives on psychosocial scales and standardized tests is the subject of much discussion. Many cross-cultural psychologists further contend, “comparing elements from differing societies leads to inadmissible distortions of reality”. Comparative research, on ethnic and cultural levels, is burdened with these concerns of incomparability. Often, due to the frequency with which a scale is used, many have assumed the metric is equal between groups. These assumptions fuel findings that may be not only unjustified but also invalid. Sensitivity toward issues of cultural measurement equivalence has not been thoroughly cultivated throughout psychological discourse. By addressing these matters of cultural equivalence, we may dispel inaccurate notions regarding cultural research. Keywords: methodology; measurement in psychology; statistical methods in psychology

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