Table 4. Primary Goodness-of-Fit and Comparative Indices for the Model of the CERQ-Ck and Tests of structural invariance for multigroup model across gender groups.
| Model | Type | χ² | df | TLI | CFI | RMSEA | SRMR | S-BΔχ² | ΔCFI | ΔRMSEA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The total sample | Nine factors | 1369.203* | 558 | 0.912 | 0.922 | 0.032 | 0.044 | |||
| Second-order factors | 1967.165* | 584 | 0.857 | 0.867 | 0.041 | 0.078 | ||||
| Third-order factors | 1977.155* | 586 | 0.857 | 0.867 | 0.041 | 0.077 | ||||
| Multigroup comparisons | ||||||||||
| CERQ-Ck | Ci | 1952.750* | 1116 | 0.910 | 0.920 | 0.033 | 0.050 | |||
| Mi | 1983.201* | 1143 | 0.912 | 0.920 | 0.032 | 0.051 | 30.36 | 0.000 | 0.000 | |
| Si | 2001.894* | 1170 | 0.915 | 0.921 | 0.032 | 0.051 | 15.84 | 0.001 | 0.000 | |
| Ri | 2121.004* | 1206 | 0.909 | 0.913 | 0.033 | 0.054 | 117.95*** | -0.008 | 0.001 |
CERQ-Ck: The Chinese Child adaption of the Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire. S-BΔχ²: the Satorra-Bentler scaled χ² different. Ci: Configural invariance; Mi: Metric invariance; Si: Scalar invariance; Ri: Residual invariance.
*: p < 0.05.
***: p < 0.001.