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Measurement Invariance of the Flourishing Scale among a Large Sample of Canadian Adolescents
Our aim was to examine measurement invariance of the Flourishing Scale (FS)—a concise measure of psychological wellbeing—across two study samples and by population characteristics among Canadian adolescents. Data were retrieved from 74,501 Canadian secondary school students in Year 7 (2018–2019) of...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7663739/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33113772 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17217800 |
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author | Romano, Isabella Ferro, Mark A. Patte, Karen A. Diener, Ed Leatherdale, Scott T. |
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description | Our aim was to examine measurement invariance of the Flourishing Scale (FS)—a concise measure of psychological wellbeing—across two study samples and by population characteristics among Canadian adolescents. Data were retrieved from 74,501 Canadian secondary school students in Year 7 (2018–2019) of the COMPASS Study and from the original validation of the FS (n = 689). We assessed measurement invariance using a confirmatory factor analysis in which increasingly stringent equality constraints were specified for model parameters between the following groups: study sample (i.e., adolescents vs. adults), gender, grade, and ethno-racial identity. In all models, full measurement invariance of the FS across all sub-groups was demonstrated. Our findings support the validity of the FS for measuring psychological wellbeing among Canadian adolescents in secondary school. Observed differences in FS score among subgroups therefore represent true differences in wellbeing rather than artifacts of differential interpretation. |
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spelling | pubmed-76637392020-11-14 Measurement Invariance of the Flourishing Scale among a Large Sample of Canadian Adolescents Romano, Isabella Ferro, Mark A. Patte, Karen A. Diener, Ed Leatherdale, Scott T. Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Our aim was to examine measurement invariance of the Flourishing Scale (FS)—a concise measure of psychological wellbeing—across two study samples and by population characteristics among Canadian adolescents. Data were retrieved from 74,501 Canadian secondary school students in Year 7 (2018–2019) of the COMPASS Study and from the original validation of the FS (n = 689). We assessed measurement invariance using a confirmatory factor analysis in which increasingly stringent equality constraints were specified for model parameters between the following groups: study sample (i.e., adolescents vs. adults), gender, grade, and ethno-racial identity. In all models, full measurement invariance of the FS across all sub-groups was demonstrated. Our findings support the validity of the FS for measuring psychological wellbeing among Canadian adolescents in secondary school. Observed differences in FS score among subgroups therefore represent true differences in wellbeing rather than artifacts of differential interpretation. MDPI 2020-10-25 2020-11 /pmc/articles/PMC7663739/ /pubmed/33113772 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17217800 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Romano, Isabella Ferro, Mark A. Patte, Karen A. Diener, Ed Leatherdale, Scott T. Measurement Invariance of the Flourishing Scale among a Large Sample of Canadian Adolescents |
title | Measurement Invariance of the Flourishing Scale among a Large Sample of Canadian Adolescents |
title_full | Measurement Invariance of the Flourishing Scale among a Large Sample of Canadian Adolescents |
title_fullStr | Measurement Invariance of the Flourishing Scale among a Large Sample of Canadian Adolescents |
title_full_unstemmed | Measurement Invariance of the Flourishing Scale among a Large Sample of Canadian Adolescents |
title_short | Measurement Invariance of the Flourishing Scale among a Large Sample of Canadian Adolescents |
title_sort | measurement invariance of the flourishing scale among a large sample of canadian adolescents |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7663739/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33113772 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17217800 |
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