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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Psychol Med. 2011 Aug 22;42(3):627–637. doi: 10.1017/S0033291711001541

Table 3.

Model Fit Comparisons for the Moderation Models.

Model −2lnL (df) χ2Δ (df) p AIC
Full Model 2706.76 (984) -- -- --
Drop Sex Moderator 2711.06 (990) 4.3 (6) .64 −7.70
Drop Puberty Moderator 2713.90 (990) 7.14 (6) .30 −4.86
Drop Sex × Puberty Moderator 2710.13 (987) 3.37 (3) .33 −2.63
Drop Moderators on A, C or E:
  Drop all moderators on A 2711.25 (987) 4.99 (3) .17 −1.01
  Drop all moderators on C 2706.76 (987) 0 (3) 1.00 −6.00
  Drop all moderators on E 2707.39 (987) 0.63 (3) .89 −5.37
  Drop all moderators on C and E 2710.39 (990) 0.63 (6) .99 −11.37
Drop all Moderators on A, C and E 2713.99 (993) 7.23 (9) .61 −10.77

Note. χ2Δ = chi-square change; Full Model = model with paths and all three moderators. Each nested model is compared to the full model when calculating the χ2Δ and degrees of freedom. The best-fitting model is noted by bolded text; unstandardized estimates (with 95% confidence intervals in parentheses) from this model are as follows: a = .69 (.54, .84), c = .00 (−.33, .33), e = .68 (.63, .74), βXS = .08 (−.09, .34), βYS = 0, βZS = 0, βXD = .05 (−.16, .27), βYD = 0, βZD = 0, βXSxD = −.30 (−.58, −.02), βYSxD = 0, βZSxD = 0,