20.500.12556/RUL-141744 An assessment of the structural validity and measurement invariance of the Web-Use Skills Scale for aging internet users Research on digital inequality has found that aging adults are often at risk of digital exclusion. Understanding the validity of survey measures assessing internet skills in this population is critical to providing the high-quality data needed for effective digital inclusion policy interventions. This cross-validation study examines the structural validity and measurement invariance (across age, gender, and education groups) of the Web-Use Skills scale (WUS), which is commonly used as a proxy measure of internet skills. We tested the 14-item version of the WUS. The scale was translated into the Slovenian language and pretested with older internet users. Data were collected from two independent samples of internet users aged 50+ years (N$_1$ = 259, N$_2$ = 256) drawn from an online opt-in panel in Slovenia. The examination of structural validity confirmed that the WUS adequately reflects the one-factor structure of the web-use skills construct, albeit in a shorter six-item form. Moreover, the analysis confirmed strict measurement invariance between the two samples, and at least scalar invariance between age, gender, and education groups. The results support the applicability of WUS in cross-group comparisons of internet skills in the aging internet users’ population and point to several opportunities for future work. aging adults cross-validation internet skills measurement invariance structural validity Web-Use Skills scale starostniki internet raziskovanje metodologija true false true Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Članek v reviji 2022-10-06 14:39:06 2022-10-06 14:39:09 2025-08-08 13:21:28 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2022 0 0 Str. 657-665 no. 10 Vol. 25 2022 0000-00-00 PostprintKoncna Objavljeno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 303:004.738.5-053.9 2152-2715 10.1089/cyber.2022.0023 123448835 RAZ_Prevodnik_Katja_2022.pdf RAZ_Prevodnik_Katja_2022.pdf 1 4789003154EBD58B9709DAE76D001D52 c61208903f186a8fcabbc8c048b698d36379f4cd7ee50f1a284c7ed89bb9fe0b 23c1c143-4577-11ed-9c94-00155dcfd717 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=162866 https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/cyber.2022.0023 0 5bc720f0-1450-11f0-b232-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=201444 Fakulteta za družbene vede Filozofska fakulteta 0 0 0