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Measurement Invariance and Psychometric Analysis of Oxford Happiness Inventory Scale across Gender and Marital Status
BACKGROUND: The Oxford Happiness Inventory (OHI) is a self-report tool to measure happiness. A brief review of previous studies on OHI showed the lack of evaluation of OHI fairness/equivalence in measuring happiness among identified groups. METHODS: To examine the psychometric properties and measure...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7327612/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32685540 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/8906209 |
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author | Mousavi, Amin Sharafi, Zahra Mahmoudi, Abdolreza Shahraki, Hadi Raeisi |
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description | BACKGROUND: The Oxford Happiness Inventory (OHI) is a self-report tool to measure happiness. A brief review of previous studies on OHI showed the lack of evaluation of OHI fairness/equivalence in measuring happiness among identified groups. METHODS: To examine the psychometric properties and measurement invariance of the OHI, responses of 500 university students were analyzed using item response theory and ordinal logistic regression (OLR). Relevant measures of effect size were utilized to interpret the results. Differential test functioning was also evaluated to determine whether there is an overall bias at the test level. RESULTS: OLR analysis detected four items across gender and two items across marital status to function differentially. An assessment of effect sizes implied negligible differences for practical considerations. CONCLUSIONS: This study was a significant step towards providing theoretical and practical information regarding the assessment of happiness by presenting adequate evidence regarding the psychometric properties of OHI. |
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spelling | pubmed-73276122020-07-17 Measurement Invariance and Psychometric Analysis of Oxford Happiness Inventory Scale across Gender and Marital Status Mousavi, Amin Sharafi, Zahra Mahmoudi, Abdolreza Shahraki, Hadi Raeisi Biomed Res Int Research Article BACKGROUND: The Oxford Happiness Inventory (OHI) is a self-report tool to measure happiness. A brief review of previous studies on OHI showed the lack of evaluation of OHI fairness/equivalence in measuring happiness among identified groups. METHODS: To examine the psychometric properties and measurement invariance of the OHI, responses of 500 university students were analyzed using item response theory and ordinal logistic regression (OLR). Relevant measures of effect size were utilized to interpret the results. Differential test functioning was also evaluated to determine whether there is an overall bias at the test level. RESULTS: OLR analysis detected four items across gender and two items across marital status to function differentially. An assessment of effect sizes implied negligible differences for practical considerations. CONCLUSIONS: This study was a significant step towards providing theoretical and practical information regarding the assessment of happiness by presenting adequate evidence regarding the psychometric properties of OHI. Hindawi 2020-06-21 /pmc/articles/PMC7327612/ /pubmed/32685540 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/8906209 Text en Copyright © 2020 Amin Mousavi et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Mousavi, Amin Sharafi, Zahra Mahmoudi, Abdolreza Shahraki, Hadi Raeisi Measurement Invariance and Psychometric Analysis of Oxford Happiness Inventory Scale across Gender and Marital Status |
title | Measurement Invariance and Psychometric Analysis of Oxford Happiness Inventory Scale across Gender and Marital Status |
title_full | Measurement Invariance and Psychometric Analysis of Oxford Happiness Inventory Scale across Gender and Marital Status |
title_fullStr | Measurement Invariance and Psychometric Analysis of Oxford Happiness Inventory Scale across Gender and Marital Status |
title_full_unstemmed | Measurement Invariance and Psychometric Analysis of Oxford Happiness Inventory Scale across Gender and Marital Status |
title_short | Measurement Invariance and Psychometric Analysis of Oxford Happiness Inventory Scale across Gender and Marital Status |
title_sort | measurement invariance and psychometric analysis of oxford happiness inventory scale across gender and marital status |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7327612/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32685540 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/8906209 |
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