Analyzing Psychopathology Items: A Case for Nonparametric Item Response Theory Modeling

Autor/inn/en	Meijer, Rob R.; Baneke, Joost J.
Titel	Analyzing Psychopathology Items: A Case for Nonparametric Item Response Theory Modeling
Quelle	In: Psychological Methods, 9 (2004) 3, S.354-368 (15 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1082-989X
Schlagwörter	Psychometrics; Psychopathology; Personality Assessment; Nonparametric Statistics; Depression (Psychology); Item Response Theory; Data Analysis; Models; Test Construction + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Psychometry; Psychometrie; Psychopathologie; Persönlichkeitsanalyse; Item-Response-Theorie; Auswertung; Analogiemodell; Testaufbau
Abstract	The authors discuss the applicability of nonparametric item response theory (IRT) models to the construction and psychometric analysis of personality and psychopathology scales, and they contrast these models with parametric IRT models. They describe the fit of nonparametric IRT to the Depression content scale of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (J. N. Butcher, W. G. Dahlstrom, J. R. Graham, A. Tellegen, & B. Kaemmer, 1989). They also show how nonparametric IRT models can easily be applied and how misleading results from parametric IRT models can be avoided. They recommend the use of nonparametric IRT modeling prior to using parametric logistic models when investigating personality data. (Author).
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