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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Psychol Assess. 2015 Jun 8;28(2):194–204. doi: 10.1037/pas0000175

Table 2.

Results of Differential Item Functioning Tests using One-Step Wald Test.

Subgroup Items X2 df p a b
Gender M F M F


8 with friends, feels pleasant 7.3 2 0.03 2.27 0.97 1.83 3.57
19 Friday night, feelings of pleasure 4.8 2 0.09 2.53 1.56 0.66 1.00
Age Group EM ER EM ER


2 friend's house/apartment 6.3 2 0.04 2.46 2.51 1.32 1.76
19 Friday night, feelings of pleasure 7.7 2 0.02 1.88 2.77 0.72 0.92
Sex Partners MN C/E MN C/E


13 Friday night, pleasant feelings, getting high 5.1 2 0.08 1.68 1.18 1.99 1.87
21 new partner 5.7 2 0.58 1.74 0.96 0.74 0.79
Ethnicity H NHW H NHW


1 hotel/motel 9.2 2 0.07 2.17 1.66 0.68 1.12
2 friend's house/apartment 5.7 2 0.06 2.21 3.20 1.53 1.91
19 Friday night, feelings of pleasure 6.8 2 0.03 2.09 1.18 1.78 1.94

Notes. p-values are compared against the adjusted critical values obtained from the Benjamini-Hochberg procedure (not shown here) to control for the false discovery rate, which is set at .05. p-values and item parameter values in bold-face indicate that they are significant. a = discrimination parameter; b = difficulty parameter; M = Male; F = Female; EM = Emerging adults; ER = Early adults; MN = Main partners; C/E = Casual or exchange partners; H = Hispanic; NHW = Non-Hispanic White.