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Antisocial behaviour in Malaysian adolescents: assessing measurement equivalence across gender differences

It is unclear whether group differences reported in literature emerged based on true differences or due to measurement bias across gender. The present study aimed to assess the measurement equivalence of three constructs (physical aggression, social aggression, and rule breaking) derived from Subtyp...

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Main Authors: T’ng, Soo Ting, Baharudin, Rozumah, Ismail, Zanariah
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Language:English
Published: Springer 2014
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/36498/1/Antisocial%20behaviour%20in%20Malaysian%20adolescents.pdf
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spelling my.upm.eprints.364982015-12-01T01:45:37Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/36498/ Antisocial behaviour in Malaysian adolescents: assessing measurement equivalence across gender differences T’ng, Soo Ting Baharudin, Rozumah Ismail, Zanariah It is unclear whether group differences reported in literature emerged based on true differences or due to measurement bias across gender. The present study aimed to assess the measurement equivalence of three constructs (physical aggression, social aggression, and rule breaking) derived from Subtypes of Antisocial Behaviour (STAB) measure across gender. A sample of 1191 school-going adolescents (41.80 % males and 57.70 % females) was used to test seven types of equivalence: configural, metric, scalar, latent variances, latent mean, latent covariances, and functional equivalence. Physical aggression demonstrated configural invariance, invariance of latent variance, invariance of latent covariance, and functional equivalence, but not metric and scalar invariances. Social aggression and rule-breaking constructs demonstrated equivalence at all levels. Females scored lower on physical aggression, social aggression, and rule breaking compared to males, indicating true gender differences in antisocial behaviour. Assessments of measurement equivalence should be conducted before drawing substantive inferences about gender differences in antisocial behaviour among adolescents. Springer 2014-12-07 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/36498/1/Antisocial%20behaviour%20in%20Malaysian%20adolescents.pdf T’ng, Soo Ting and Baharudin, Rozumah and Ismail, Zanariah (2014) Antisocial behaviour in Malaysian adolescents: assessing measurement equivalence across gender differences. Child Indicators Research. pp. 1-14. ISSN 1874-897X; ESSN: 1874-8988 10.1007/s12187-014-9279-x
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description It is unclear whether group differences reported in literature emerged based on true differences or due to measurement bias across gender. The present study aimed to assess the measurement equivalence of three constructs (physical aggression, social aggression, and rule breaking) derived from Subtypes of Antisocial Behaviour (STAB) measure across gender. A sample of 1191 school-going adolescents (41.80 % males and 57.70 % females) was used to test seven types of equivalence: configural, metric, scalar, latent variances, latent mean, latent covariances, and functional equivalence. Physical aggression demonstrated configural invariance, invariance of latent variance, invariance of latent covariance, and functional equivalence, but not metric and scalar invariances. Social aggression and rule-breaking constructs demonstrated equivalence at all levels. Females scored lower on physical aggression, social aggression, and rule breaking compared to males, indicating true gender differences in antisocial behaviour. Assessments of measurement equivalence should be conducted before drawing substantive inferences about gender differences in antisocial behaviour among adolescents.
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author T’ng, Soo Ting
Baharudin, Rozumah
Ismail, Zanariah
spellingShingle T’ng, Soo Ting
Baharudin, Rozumah
Ismail, Zanariah
Antisocial behaviour in Malaysian adolescents: assessing measurement equivalence across gender differences
author_facet T’ng, Soo Ting
Baharudin, Rozumah
Ismail, Zanariah
author_sort T’ng, Soo Ting
title Antisocial behaviour in Malaysian adolescents: assessing measurement equivalence across gender differences
title_short Antisocial behaviour in Malaysian adolescents: assessing measurement equivalence across gender differences
title_full Antisocial behaviour in Malaysian adolescents: assessing measurement equivalence across gender differences
title_fullStr Antisocial behaviour in Malaysian adolescents: assessing measurement equivalence across gender differences
title_full_unstemmed Antisocial behaviour in Malaysian adolescents: assessing measurement equivalence across gender differences
title_sort antisocial behaviour in malaysian adolescents: assessing measurement equivalence across gender differences
publisher Springer
publishDate 2014
url http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/36498/1/Antisocial%20behaviour%20in%20Malaysian%20adolescents.pdf
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