Abstract

Objective:

The aims of this study were to develop a revised version of the Meaning In Life Measure (MILM; Hill et al., 2019) and investigate its multilevel measurement invariance at the between-person and within-person levels and multi-group measurement invariance across gender, age, and cultural groups.

Methods:

We analyzed an international dataset including data from 1600 sessions with 384 clients in five continents (Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, and North America) using multilevel item response theory and multilevel factor analysis.

Results:

We found that the revised 5-item MILM-5 had satisfactory reliability and structural validity with the overall sample. Further, it demonstrated measurement invariance across the between- and within-person levels, and also across gender and age groups. Across representative countries within continents, the MILM-5 had the same overall factor structure but all factor loadings and item intercepts significantly differed across cultural contexts. Implications are discussed regarding the assessment of meaning in life in international clinical settings.

中文翻译：

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生活测量的意义：五项简表及其跨性别、年龄和文化背景的测量不变性

摘要

客观的：

本研究的目的是开发修订版的 Meaning In Life Measure (MILM; Hill et al., 2019) 并研究其在人与人之间和人内水平的多层次测量不变性以及跨人群的多组测量不变性性别、年龄和文化群体。

方法：

我们使用多层次项目反应理论和多层次因素分析分析了一个国际数据集，其中包括来自五大洲（非洲、亚洲、欧洲、拉丁美洲和北美）384 位客户的 1600 场会议的数据。

结果：

我们发现修订后的 5 项 MILM-5 对整体样本具有令人满意的信度和结构效度。此外，它还证明了跨人与人之间以及跨性别和年龄组的测量不变性。在各大洲的代表性国家中，MILM-5 具有相同的整体因子结构，但所有因子载荷和项目截距在不同文化背景下显着不同。讨论了关于在国际临床环境中评估生命意义的意义。