Table 2.
Fit indices and estimates for unconditional linear growth models of cannabis use and motivation indices.
| χ2 | df | CFI | RMSEA | AIC | SABIC | Intercept |
Slope |
Intercept σ2 |
Slope σ2 |
Cov (I/S) |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CU (continuous) | 21.87 | 10 | .98 | .05 | 19685.88 | 19694.09 | .70** | .56** | 1502.36** | 122.91** | .08 |
| CU (count) | - | - | - | - | 15425.60 | 15433.80 | 1.01** | .71** | 16.59** | 89.41** | .67** |
| AES: Apathy | 1.74 | 1 | .99 | .05 | 4712.08 | 4717.83 | 6.21** | −.12 | 20.85** | 1.48* | −.21 |
| MES: Disengagement | 2.38 | 1 | .99 | .06 | 6169.83 | 6175.59 | 7.43 ** | .22* | 157.61** | 9.47* | −.51** |
| MES: Persistence | 6.65* | 1 | .94 | .13 | 6332.48 | 6338.24 | 6.99** | .12 | 217.81** | 11.23* | −.59** |
| MES: Planning | 1.60 | 1 | .99 | .04 | 6402.52 | 6408.28 | 7.40** | .44* | 182.96** | 5.66 | −.47* |
| MES: Self-Belief | .13 | 1 | 1.00 | .00 | 6019.23 | 6024.98 | 11.42** | .09 | 90.09** | 4.65 | −.55** |
| MES: Valuing School | 2.16 | 1 | .99 | .06 | 6330.65 | 6336.40 | 6.83** | .16 | 217.43** | 6.04 | −.32 |
p < .001,
p <.05.
Variance (σ2) estimates are unstandardized. All other estimates are presented in standardized metric.
Note: CU = cannabis use; AES = Apathy Evaluation Scale; MES = Motivation and Engagement Scale; df = degrees of freedom; CFI = Comparative Fit Index; RMSEA = Root Mean Square Error of Approximation; AIC = Akaike Information Criterion; SABIC = Sample-size Adjusted Bayesian Information Criterion; Cov (I/S) = Covariance between intercept and slope.