The emic-etic divide in test development and adaptation: Recommendations to authors to address cross-cultural comparability.

European Journal of Psychological Assessment, Vol 40(2), 2024, 97-100; doi:10.1027/1015-5759/a000823This editorial focuses on the emic-etic divide in test development and adaptation and encourages authors to make extra efforts in order to ensure that the tests they develop have a significant probability of being cross-culturally valid outside the direct scope of the development process, and of the data that they use in order to offer proof of validity. This extra effort can either be addressed in separate and dedicated studies or integrated into planned studies through straightforward extensions. At the very least, test authors are encouraged to explicitly address (a) the ways in which, and conditions under which, their tests may misperform in cultures other than the source culture, and (b) the issues towards which cultural adaptations of their tests may especially need to be sensitive to. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved)
Source: European Journal of Psychological Assessment - Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research