Skip to main content
. 2023 Oct 5;18(10):e0292459. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0292459

Table 4. Goodness of fit of the four CSS-12 measurement models evaluated (N = 657).

Model Short Description CFI TLI RMSEA (90% CI) SRMR AIC* BIC*
1 One-dimension (CFA) 0.943 0.930 0.141 (0.132–0.150) 0.052 18650.8 18698.0
2 Four-dimension (CFA) 0.959 0.944 0.126 (0.117–0.136) 0.043 18456.5 18644.9
3 Bifactor (original paper) 0.966 0.947 0.122 (0.112–0.133) 0.039 18189.5 18255.2
4 Bifactor-ESEM (our proposal) 0.999 0.997 0.029 (0.000–0.050) 0.006 18129.9 18227.0

(*) Models fitted with a Maximum Likelihood Estimation with Robust Standard Errors (MLR) estimator.

CFA, Confirmatory Factor Analysis; ESEM, exploratory structural equation modelling; AIC, Akaike’s information criteria; BIC, sample-size adjusted Bayesian Information Criteria; CFI, comparative fit index; TLI, Tucker–Lewis Index; RMSEA, Root Mean Square Error of Approximation; SRMR, standardised root mean square residual.