PSYC 3350 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Collectivism, Statistical Hypothesis Testing, Scale Invariance

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3350
• Professor: Saba Safdar

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*validy refers to whether or not a scale, test or measure accurately measures what it is supposed to measure. *reliability refers to whether it measures it consistently. *these two concepts are important to all researchers, cross-cultural researchers or not *cross-cultural researchers cannot simply take a scale or measure that was developed and validated in one culture and use it in another. Just because it is valid in one culture, there is no reason to assume that its equally valid in any other culture. Cross-cultural validation studies examine whether a measure of psychological construct that was originally generated in a single culture, is applicable, meaningful and most importantly psychometrically equivalent (that is, equally reliable and valid) in another culture. *they test the equivalence of psychological measures and tests for use in other cross- cultural comparative research. *characterized by rich descriptions of complex theoretical models of culture that predict and explain cultural differences.