Table 3.
Geomin rotated loadings for an EFA (n = 2072) and CFA factor loadings (n = 4142) with three common factors of women’s agency, married women ages 16–49 years in Egypt, 2006
| Item | EFA geomin rotated loadings (Model 1) |
CFA factor loadings (Model 2) |
Baseline MIMIC model (Model 3) |
MIMIC model (Model 4) |
Final MIMIC model (Model 5) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Factor 1 DM |
Factor 2 FM |
Factor 3GVA |
Factor 1 DM |
Factor 2 FM |
Factor 3GVA |
Factor 1 DM |
Factor 2 FM |
Factor 3GVA |
Factor 1 DM |
Factor 2 FM |
Factor 3GVA |
Factor 1 DM |
Factor 2 FM |
Factor 3GVA |
|
| DM_01 | 0.498* | 0.008 | −0.004 | 0.480* | 0.480* | 0.480* | 0.467* | ||||||||
| DM_02 | 0.759* | −0.015 | 0.056 | 0.711* | 0.710* | 0.710* | 0.694* | ||||||||
| DM_03 | 0.619* | 0.144* | −0.021 | 0.704* | 0.703* | 0.704* | 0.696* | ||||||||
| DM_04 | 0.735* | −0.065 | −0.012 | 0.645* | 0.644* | 0.644* | 0.629* | ||||||||
| DM_05 | 0.655* | 0.186* | 0.007 | 0.791* | 0.788* | 0.788* | 0.780* | ||||||||
| DM_06 | 0.621* | 0.051 | 0.024 | 0.670* | 0.669* | 0.668* | 0.656* | ||||||||
| FM_02 | 0.027 | 0.806* | −0.009 | 0.828* | 0.829* | 0.829* | 0.823* | ||||||||
| FM_03 | −0.033 | 0.887* | 0.037 | 0.905* | 0.905* | 0.905* | 0.906* | ||||||||
| FM_04 | 0.053 | 0.634* | −0.031 | 0.634* | 0.636* | 0.635* | 0.628* | ||||||||
| GVA_01 | 0.013 | 0.026 | 0.835* | 0.855* | 0.855* | 0.855* | 0.855* | ||||||||
| GVA_02 | 0.019 | −0.006 | 0.886* | 0.901* | 0.901* | 0.901* | 0.901* | ||||||||
| GVA_03 | −0.048 | −0.006 | 0.925* | 0.890* | 0.889* | 0.889* | 0.890* | ||||||||
| GVA_04 | −0.003 | 0.036 | 0.903* | 0.890* | 0.890* | 0.890* | 0.890* | ||||||||
| GVA_05 | −0.015 | −0.003 | 0.918* | 0.893* | 0.892* | 0.892* | 0.893* | ||||||||
| GVA_06 | 0.019 | −0.028 | 0.831* | 0.805* | 0.803* | 0.803* | 0.804* | ||||||||
| Structural regressions (indirect effects) | |||||||||||||||
| AFM 16–29 years (ref: < 16) | 0.189* | −0.075 | 0.200* | 0.127 | −0.076 | 0.200* | 0.244* | 0.000 | 0.206* | ||||||
| AFM 30–42 years (ref: < 16) | 0.553* | −0.163 | 0.719* | 0.553* | −0.063 | 0.718* | 0.455* | −0.135 | 0.715* | ||||||
| Age in years | 0.030* | 0.020* | 0.001 | ||||||||||||
| Direct effects (DIF) | |||||||||||||||
| FM_04 on AFM 30–42 years | −0.322* | −0.330* | |||||||||||||
| DM_01 on AFM 16–29 years | 0.175* | 0.190* | |||||||||||||
| DM_06 on AFM 16–29 years | 0.152* | 0.169* | |||||||||||||
| Model fit indices | |||||||||||||||
| RMSEA | 0.053 | 0.033 | 0.030 | 0.030 | 0.030 | ||||||||||
| CFI | 0.967 | 0.982 | 0.981 | 0.981 | 0.979 | ||||||||||
| TLI | 0.946 | 0.978 | 0.976 | 0.976 | 0.974 | ||||||||||
EFA Exploratory factor analysis, CFA confirmatory factor analysis, MIMIC multiple indicator multiple cause, DM decision-making, FM freedom of movement, GVA gender violence attitudes, DIF differential item functioning, RMSEA root mean square error of approximation, CFI comparative fit index, TLI Tucker–Lewis Index
Significant at p ≤ 0.05