Table 3.
Confirmatory factor analysis alternative model testing.
| Model | Chi square (df) | P value | CMIN/dfa | GFIb | AGFIc | NFId | IFIe | TLIf | CFIg | RMSEAh | Akaike information criterion | BCCi | BICj |
| 3 first-order correlated | 104.26 (24) | <.001 | 4.345 | .96 | .93 | .94 | .96 | .94 | .96 | .078 | 146.26 | 147.05 | 236.62 |
| 3 first-order uncorrelated | 273.79 (27) | <.001 | 10.141 | .91 | .85 | .86 | .87 | .83 | .87 | .130 | 309.79 | 310.46 | 387.24 |
| One first-order factor | 812.73 (27) | <.001 | 30.101 | .72 | .53 | .60 | .61 | .48 | .61 | .231 | 848.73 | 849.41 | 926.18 |
aCMIN/df: Minimum Discrepancy Degrees of Freedom.
bGFI: Goodness of Fit.
cAGFI: Adjusted Goodness of Fit Index.
dNFI: Normed Fit Index.
eIFI: Incremental Fit Index.
fTucker Lewis Index.
gCFI: Comparative Fit Index.
hRMSEA: root mean square error of approximation.
iBCC: Browne-Cudeck Criterion.
jBIC: Bayesian Information Criterion.