Table 2. Longitudinal relations between work engagement and psychological distress (N = 1,967).
| Model | AGFI | CFI | RMSEA | χ2 | df | p | Model comparison |
Δχ2 | Δdf | p | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| [M1] | Stability model | .96 | .98 | .07 | 102.67 | 9 | .00 | ||||
| Lagged models | |||||||||||
| [M2] | PSY (T1) —> EN (T2) | .96 | .98 | .08 | 100.75 | 8 | .00 | M1 vs M2 | 1.92 | 1 | .17 |
| [M3] | EN (T1) —> PSY (T2) | .96 | .98 | .07 | 94.62 | 8 | .00 | M1 vs M3 | 8.05 | 1 | .00 |
| [M4] | EN (T1) —> PSY (T2) & EN2 (T1) —> PSY (T2) | .95 | .98 | .08 | 94.42 | 7 | .00 | M1 vs M4 | 8.25 | 2 | .02 |
| M3 vs M4 | 0.20 | 1 | .65 | ||||||||
| Concurrent models | |||||||||||
| [M5] | PSY (T2) —> EN (T2) | .98 | .99 | .05 | 53.22 | 8 | .00 | M1 vs M5 | 49.45 | 1 | .00 |
| [M6] |
EN (T2) —> PSY (T2) | .98 | .99 | .05 | 47.05 | 8 | .00 | M1 vs M6 | 55.62 | 1 | .00 |
| [M7] | EN (T2) —> PSY (T2) & EN2 (T2) —> PSY (T2) | .98 | .99 | .05 | 39.60 | 7 | .00 | M1 vs M7 | 63.07 | 2 | .00 |
| M6 vs M7 | 7.45 | 1 | .01 |
Note. EN = Work engagement, PD = Psychological distress; T1 = Time 1, T2 = Time 2.