A RASCH Analysis of the 500 Family Study [1998-2000:United States]

• In Event: Poster Session
  In Poster Session: Division D Poster Session

Abstract

The Rasch model is a beneficial measurement to analyze instruments, such as questionnaires, tests and surveys, and produces useful suggestions on how to modify or improve these instruments. All these advantages of the Rasch measurement benefit not only the analyzed instruments, but also the future studies in the related areas. In this study, 32 items from three question sets in the 500 Family Study [1998-2000: United States], a study about work and family experience, were analyzed by the Rasch measurement. These three question sets focus on children’s dependency on their mothers, children’s dependency on their fathers, and their belongingness and love needs in Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. Based on the results of the Rasch analysis, overlapping items with similar difficulty should be removed and several new items with appropriate difficulty should be added. A new option, “always”, should be added to the question set of children’s belongingness and love needs.

Authors

• Jie Ni, Miami University

• Jing Tan, Miami University

• Yu Zhong, Miami University

• Aimin Wang, Miami University