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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Res Q Exerc Sport. 2015 Mar 9;86(3):303–310. doi: 10.1080/02701367.2015.1008965

Table 3.

Results of testing sequentially nested models for increasingly more restrictive forms of factorial invariance.

Model Type of Invariance NNFI CFI SRMR RMSEA
(90% CI)
Closeness-of-fit
p-value
df SBχ2*
1 Configural .983 .987 .088 .038
(.016 – .055)
.871 162 200.13
2 First-order loadings .974 .978 .106 .048
(.031 – .062)
.596 173 235.80
Model 2 vs. 1 −.009 −.009 11 98.76
3 Second-order loadings .969 .974 .117 .052
(.037 – .066)
.410 176 251.81
Model 3 vs. 1 −.002 −.013 14 132.37
4 Item intercepts .954 .958 .119 .063
(.063 – .075)
.047 191 313.23
Model 4 vs. 1 −.018 −.029 29 358.83
4A Partial invariance of item intercepts .964 .968 .116 .056
(.042 – .069)
.226 187 281.45
Model 4A vs. 1 −.006 −.019 25 205.53
*

Satorra-Bentler scaled chi square, which was not used directly in testing model fit, but was used in the computation of the other fit indices.