Can life satisfaction be measured fairly for different groups of South African first-year university students? Testing differential item functioning and invariance of The Satisfaction With Life Scale
Student well-being has gradually become a topic of interest in higher education, and the accurate, valid, and reliable measure of well-being constructs is crucial in the South African context. This study examined item bias and configural, metric and scalar invariance of the Satisfaction With Life S...
Main Authors: | Clarisse van Rensburg, Karina Mostert |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Journal of Student Affairs in Africa
2023-08-01
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Series: | Journal of Student Affairs in Africa |
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Online Access: | https://upjournals.up.ac.za/index.php/jsaa/article/view/4327 |
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