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| 100 | 1 | _aFarmer, Antoinette Y. | |
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_aResearch with diverse groups : _bresearch designs and multivariate latent modeling for equivalence / _cAntoinette Y. Farmer, G. Lawrence Farmer |
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_aNew York : _bOxford University Press, _c2014. |
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_aix, 119 p. : _bill. ; _c21 cm. |
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| 490 | 0 | _aPocket guides to social work research methods | |
| 504 | _aIncludes bibliographical references and index. | ||
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| 700 | 1 | _aFarmer, Lawrence G. | |
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| 520 | _aSocial work researchers often conduct research with groups that are diverse in terms of gender, sexual orientation, race or ethnic background, or age. Consequently, social work researchers must take great care to establish research-design equivalence at all phases of the research process(e.g., problem formulation, research design, sampling, measurement selection, data collection, and data analysis); otherwise, the results might reflect methodological flaws rather than true group differences and therefore lead to erroneous conclusions. This book introduces the methodologicalprecautions that must be taken into consideration when conducting research with diverse groups. Multigroup Confirmatory Analysis (MG-CFA) using structural equation modeling (SEM) was utilized to demonstrate how to assess seven types of measurement and structural equivalence that Milfont and Fischer (2010) have deemed important for studies with diverse samples. A hypothetical example wasprovided to illustrate how to design a study with good research-design equivalence. A case example was provided to demonstrate how to conduct an MG-CFA for each type of measurement and structural equivalence discussed. The Mplus syntax used to conduct the MG-CFA was provided. The results from theMG-CFA analyses were written up as they would be for publication. | ||
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