Table 1.
Unstandardized Estimates of Confirmatory Factor Analysis for Constraints and Mastery
| Constraints | Mastery | |||||
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| Factor Loading
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Factor Loading
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Residual Variance
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| Estimate | SE | Estimate | SE | Estimate | SE | |
| Manifest Item Wordings
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| 1. I often feel helpless in dealing with the problems of life | 1.00 | 1.30* | 0.03 | |||
| 2. Other people determine most of what I can and cannot do | 0.94* | 0.02 | 1.28* | 0.03 | ||
| 3. What happens in my life is often beyond my control | 1.27* | 0.03 | 0.88* | 0.03 | ||
| 4. I have little control over the things that happen to me | 1.29* | 0.03 | 0.69* | 0.03 | ||
| 5. There is really no way I can solve the problems I have | 1.13* | 0.02 | 0.74* | 0.02 | ||
| 6. I can do just about anything I really set my mind to | 1.00 | 0.56* | 0.03 | |||
| 7. When I really want to do something, I usually find a way to succeed at it | 0.94* | 0.01 | 0.42* | 0.02 | ||
| 8. Whether or not I am able to get what I want is in my own hands | 0.94* | 0.02 | 0.78* | 0.03 | ||
| 9. What happens to me in the future mostly depends on me | 0.89* | 0.02 | 0.88* | 0.03 | ||
| 10. I can do the things that I want to do | 0.98* | 0.02 | 0.76* | 0.03 | ||
| Variance
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| Constraints | 0.97* (0.04) | |||||
| Mastery | 1.22* (0.04) | |||||
| Covariance (Correlation) | ||||||
| Constraints and mastery | −.44* | |||||
| Model Fit Statistics
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| RMSEA | .095 | |||||
| CFI | .942 | |||||
Note. N = 7,612. Items were scored on a 6-point scale: 1 (Strongly disagree), 2 (Somewhat disagree), 3 (Slightly disagree), 4 (Slightly agree), 5 (Somewhat agree), 6 (Strongly agree). RMSEA = Root Mean Square Error of Approximation. CFI = Comparative Fit Index.
*
p < .05.