Тип публикации: статья из журнала

Год издания: 2012

Идентификатор DOI: 10.1080/17405629.2012.689823

Ключевые слова: Meaning of life, Purpose in life, The Meaning-in-Life Orientations test, Measurement invariance

Аннотация: Search for purposes in life and the meaning of life is one of the developmental tasks in youth. The Meaning-in-Life Orientations test (MOL) is often used to assess purposes in life and meaningfulness of life and is often used to compare individuals and groups. It is yet unclear whether this test shows measurement invariance across Показать полностьюdifferent countries or not, which was the main object of the current study. First, confirmatory factor analyses were conducted separately for data sets with Russian and Ukrainian students. Second, metric and scalar invariance were tested. Finally, comparisons between Russian and Ukrainian students were made on their scores on the MOL.

Журнал: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY

Выпуск журнала: Vol. 9, Is. 6

Номера страниц: 744-750

ISSN журнала: 17405629

Место издания: HOVE

Издатель: PSYCHOLOGY PRESS

• Gorlova Natalia (Siberian Fed Univ, Dept Dev Psychol, Krasnoyarsk 660041, Russia)
• Romanyuk Lyudmyla (Taras Shevchenko Kyiv Natl Univ, Dept Dev Psychol, Kiev, Ukraine)
• Vanbrabant Leonard (Univ Utrecht, Dept Methods & Stat, Utrecht, Netherlands)
• van de Schoot Rens (Univ Utrecht, Dept Methods & Stat, Utrecht, Netherlands; North West Univ, Optentia Res Program, Fac Humanities, Vanderbijlpark, South Africa)

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