Cross-cultural measurement problems may bias psychosocial instruments translated across cultures¶

Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study · associational r1 · q2
Currency · newest study 1998 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person · overdue for a recheck since 2001: tool and model accuracy changes quickly
Evidence quality · No study behind this claim is a peer-reviewed article with a DOI: it rests on an ERIC document (a report, conference paper or thesis). It is kept because a design page cites it; treat it as a lead to check, not an established finding.

Subclaims¶

q2 i? The Korean MPD showed acceptable reliability and internal consistency, but correlation coefficients for the sample were unsatisfactory, suggesting cross-cultural error. → Kim 1998

Evidence¶

Kim 1998¶

Kim, Saekyung; Gaa, John; Swank, Paul; Liberman, Dov. (1998). Identity Transformation of Korean Immigrants. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED420007

q2 · i? · associational · r1

Psychometric evaluation of the Korean-translated MPD in the 79-subject sample: Rho of .882, .875, and .875 and alphas of .82, .91, and .84 for identity, intimacy, and generativity scales, but inter-trait correlations were low and some positively-valued pairs should have been inversely related.

"the correlation coefficient of the MPD for this specific group was not satisfactory (table 6)."

Discussion¶

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