Personality and personality disorders in urban and rural Africa: results from a field trial in Burkina Faso
Original Research ARTICLE Front. Psychol., 11 March 2013 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00079 Jérôme Rossier1*, Abdoulaye Ouedraogo2, Donatien Dahourou2, Sabrina Verardi1 and Franz Meyer de Stadelhofen1 1University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland 2University of Ouagadougou, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso When conducting research in different cultural settings, assessing measurement equivalence is of prime importance to determine if constructs and scores can be compared across groups. Structural equivalence implies that constructs have the same meaning across groups, metric equivalence implies that the metric of the scales remains…