Glossary E
Glossary E
Equity norm refers to a social standard that encourages distributing rewards and resources in proportion to their inputs.
The Equity theory refers to a social exchange Theory that asserts that people seek and are most satisfied with an interpersonal relationship when their own benefits/costs ratio equals their partner's benefits/costs ratio.
In the psychology context, equivalence refers to the concept of ensuring that psychological measures, tests, and research findings are comparable across different cultures, languages, or groups. This involves validating that psychological instruments assess the same constructs in the same way, regardless of where or with whom they are used. Equivalence is crucial in cross-cultural psychology, where researchers study and compare psychological phenomena across diverse cultural backgrounds to draw valid and reliable conclusions.
Deutsch: Äquivalenzform-Reliabilität / Español: Fiabilidad de formas equivalentes / Português: Confiabilidade de formas equivalentes / Français: Fiabilité des formes équivalentes / Italiano: Affidabilità delle forme equivalenti /
Equivalent-forms reliability refers to the extent to which an individual obtains similar scores on equivalent, or parallel, forms of the same test.