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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Oct 30.
Published in final edited form as: J Clin Epidemiol. 2008 Oct 1;62(3):10.1016/j.jclinepi.2008.06.012. doi: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2008.06.012

Table 2.

Tests of measurement invariance in four domains of the PedsQL 4.0

Models of MI of testing Reference
model		 ΔSBχ2 P-value
of ΔSBχ2 		RMSEA CFI ΔCFI No (%) of
items with MI
Physical
  M1: Configural — — — 0.06 0.97 — 8 (100%)
  M2: Metric M1 3.48 0.75 0.05 0.97 0 8 (100%)
  M3: Scalar M2 99.24 <0.05 0.08 0.92 0.05 —
  M4: Partial scalar M2 0.20 0.90 0.05 0.97 0 3 (38%)
  M5: Residual M4 54.38 <0.05 0.08 0.93 0.04 —
  M6: Partial residual M4 3.13 0.37 0.05 0.97 0 4 (50%)
Emotional
  M1: Configural — — — 0.05 0.99 — 5 (100%)
  M2: Metric M1 6.10 0.19 0.04 0.99 0 5 (100%)
  M3: Scalar M2 13.74 <0.05 0.05 0.98 0.01 —
  M4: Partial scalar M2 2.26 0.32 0.04 0.99 0 3 (60%)
  M5: Residual M4 12.4 <0.05 0.05 0.98 0.01 —
  M6: Partial residual M4 3.55 0.47 0.04 0.99 0 4 (80%)
Social
  M1: Configural — — — 0.06 0.97 — 5 (100%)
  M2: Metric M1 4.59 0.33 0.06 0.97 0 5 (100%)
  M3: Scalar M2 30.76 <0.05 0.08 0.95 0.02 —
  M4: Partial scalar M2 0.61 0.44 0.06 0.97 0 2 (40%)
  M5: Residual M4 39.23 <0.05 0.09 0.92 0.05 —
  M6: Partial residual M4 5.28 0.15 0.06 0.97 0 3 (60%)
School
  M1: Configural — — — 0.02 0.99 — 5 (100%)
  M2: Metric M1 1.31 0.96 0.01 1.00 −0.01 5 (100%)
  M3: Scalar M2 18.19 <0.05 0.04 0.98 0.02 —
  M4: Partial scalar M2 4.13 0.13 0.01 1.00 0 3 (60%)
  M5: Residual M4 0.32 0.99 0.01 1.00 0 5 (100%)

Abbreviation: MI, measurement invariance.

Poor model fits were flagged in italic.