Multisample Confirmatory Analysis Research Articles

Race Differences on the UNIT: Evidence from Multi-Sample Confirmatory Analysis

The Universal Nonverbal Intelligence Test (UNIT; Bracken & McCallum, 1998) is a standardized, norm referenced measure of intelligence in which administration and response formats are entirely nonverbal, requiring only universal hand gestures from the examiner and examinee. The UNIT was constructed in order to provide a more appropriate and valid assessment for children who are not fluent in a community’s dominant language and culture. Using multi-sample confirmatory factor analysis, the present study examines standardization for four different racial/ethnic groups (i.e., Whites, Blacks, Asians, and Hispanics), concluding that the observed differences in subtest performance are likely attributable to group differences in factor means. Suggestions for future study are offered.

The two scaled versions of the Chinese General Health Questionnaire: a comparative analysis.

The four scales of the Chinese 28-item General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-28), and the five scales of the Chinese GHQ-20 were separately subjected to confirmatory factor analysis (in individual sample analyses and simultaneous multi-sample analyses) based on four Chinese samples of 150 general psychiatric patients, 549 school teachers, 653 university undergraduates, and 1082 secondary school students. While the two scaled versions were comparable in discriminating patients from nonpatients, the five scales of the GHQ-20 assessing five correlated dimensions were interpreted as mapping salient symptom areas in the Hong Kong Chinese population as they were empirically derived in the Chinese setting. The need for using samples from different cultural settings in multi-sample confirmatory analysis was discussed.