Open AccessInvariance of the Household Food Insecurity Access Scale Across Different Groups of Adolescents and Young Adults
Author(s) -
Rainier Masa,
Anjalee Sharma
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
food and nutrition bulletin
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.649
H-Index - 73
eISSN - 1564-8265
pISSN - 0379-5721
DOI - 10.1177/03795721211019634
Subject(s) - measurement invariance , confirmatory factor analysis , scale (ratio) , food insecurity , psychology , receipt , invariant (physics) , metric (unit) , demography , mathematics , statistics , structural equation modeling , geography , operations management , cartography , archaeology , sociology , world wide web , computer science , food security , economics , mathematical physics , agriculture
Cross-group comparisons of household food insecurity and its associations using multiple-item scales assume that scale scores can be interpreted as identical across groups. However, scores should not be interpreted as identical across groups without evidence of measurement invariance. Noninvariant measures indicate that the underlying construct may be different across groups.