Testing Measurement Invariance across Groups: Inspirational Leadership Scale

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Pongthep Chandasuwan

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The main objective of this study was to test the measurement invariance of the inspirational leadership scale across groups. Multi-group confirmatory factor analyses and the nested models organized in a hierarchical ordering were accepted to be the powerful and useful approach for testing measurement invariance. The findings have showed that all the four invariance models tested have achieved acceptable goodness-of-fit indices.

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