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- Title
THE INVESTIGATION OF THE FACTOR STRUCTURE, CONSTRUCT VALIDITY AND GENDER RELATED DIFFERENCES OF THE HUNGARIAN VERSION OF THE ACCEPTANCE AND ACTION QUESTIONNAIRE-II: A LATENT MEAN DIFFERENCE APPROACH.
- Authors
BALÁZSI, Róbert; PÉNTEK, Imre; VARGHA, Jenő; SZABÓ, Krisztina
- Abstract
The Acceptance and Action Questionnaire-II (AAQ-II) was developed as a self-report instrument meant to measure experiential avoidance (EA), the central construct of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. Although it is generally accepted that there are no systematic gender differences on AAQII scores, some studies revealed higher scores of EA in women. The seemingly contradictory results leave open the question of whether the observed differences should be regarded as a genuine construct level difference between the two populations, or rather as a methodological artifact due to measurement non-invariance of AAQ-II. Our study aims to address the measurement invariance across gender groups of the Hungarian version of the AAQ-II. N=342 participants (37.75% male, and 62.25% female) completed the 7- item AAQ-II. Measurement invariance was assessed through multi-group CFA, using IBM AMOS ML estimation. Differences between the nested models were assessed through Δχ² complemented by changes of CFI (ΔCFI). Our results sustained the unidimensional structure of AAQ-II, and it's construct validity. Partial measurement invariance of the AAQ-II and statistically significant latent mean differences across gender was also found, women showing higher levels of EA. These results were discussed from the perspective of cultural differences in the socialization of emotions.
- Subjects
INTERNATIONAL Business Machines Corp.; FACTOR structure; TEST validity; ACCEPTANCE &; commitment therapy; GENDER; QUESTIONNAIRES
- Publication
Journal of Evidence-Based Psychotherapies, 2019, Vol 19, Issue 1, p73
- ISSN
2360-0853
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.24193/jebp.2019.1.5