Do Difference Scores Make a Difference on the Third-Person Effect?

• In Event: Advances in Third Person Effect Research (TOP PAPER ENTRY)

Abstract

Researchers of different fields were intrigued but confused with respect to the way of conceptualizing and operationalizing difference. This paper critically reviewed a number of existing means of operationalizing difference, and mathematically explicated why difference scores were problematic, and why the diamond model that aimed to replace difference scores were equally troublesome. In the end, the paper recommended polynomial regression and the latent congruence model, as alternatives to difference scores.

Author

• Guangchao Charles Feng, Jinan University