The present paper contributes to the literature on the formation of attitudes and public views
toward out-group populations by focusing on the relations between actual versus perceived …

The current study examines the following questions:(1) the extent to which individual basic
human values are linked with attitudes towards immigration;(2) whether symbolic threat by …

The testing of measurement invariance (MI) across different cultural backgrounds for short
screeners of mental health has been mostly neglected. Therefore, we examined MI in the …

The comparison of group means in latent variable models plays a vital role in empirical
research in the social sciences. The present article discusses an extension of invariance …

Differences in societal views on the roles of men and women have been addressed in many
large-scale comparative studies by employing indicators of gender roles attitudes from cross …

This article illustrates the Bayesian approximate measurement invariance (MI) approach in
M plus with longitudinal data and small sample size. Approximate MI incorporates zero …

The rising voter support for populist parties in Western Democracies in recent years has
incited academic interest in populist voters and attitudes connected to the voting propensity …

Survey-based measures of subjective well-being are increasingly often analyzed cross-
culturally. However, international comparison of these measures requires measurement …

Institutional trust is in decline in many western democracies. Since the 2008 global
economic and financial crisis, this increasing distrust has been closely related to trust in …

Questionnaire development in cross‐national/cultural surveys starts with the same
challenges facing monolingual/cultural surveys. The individual measures need to be reliable …