Table 2.
Results from final MNLFA models for material and economic deprivation, psychosocial threat, and caregiver social support constructs. In all models, the latent means are constrained to 0 and variances are constrained to 1 when all covariates are set to 0 for categorical covariates and mean-centered for continuous covariates (designating White 9.9-year-old boys with a college graduate parent and a family INR of 3.7 as the reference group).
| Differences at the latent level (factor means) and item level (DIF) |
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| Material deprivation (last 12 months) | Sex | Age | Black | Hispanic | Other | INR | Education |
| Factor mean: 0.00a | – | – | 0.44 * ** | – | 0.25 * ** | -0.30 * ** | -0.06 * ** |
| Factor variance: 1.00a | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Item 1. Needed food but couldn't afford to buy it or couldn't afford to go out to get it? | |||||||
| Threshold: 7.31 | – | – | – | – | – | -0.92 * ** | – |
| Loading: 3.25 | – | – | – | – | – | 0.39 * * | – |
| Item 2. Were without telephone service because you could not afford it? | |||||||
| Threshold: 12.49 | – | – | 0.50 * ** | – | – | -2.37 * ** | – |
| Loading: 4.81 | – | – | – | – | – | 0.87 * ** | – |
| Item 3. Didn't pay the full amount of the rent or mortgage because you could not afford it? | |||||||
| Threshold: 4.69 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Loading: 2.33 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Item 4. Were evicted from your home for not paying the rent or mortgage? | |||||||
| Threshold: 10.50 | – | – | – | – | – | -1.31 * * | – |
| Loading: 3.29 | – | – | – | – | – | 0.49 * * | – |
| Item 5. Had services turned off by the gas or electric company, or the oil company wouldn't deliver oil because payments were not made? | |||||||
| Threshold: 5.49 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Loading: 2.14 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Item 6. Had someone who needed to see a doctor or go to the hospital but didn't go because you could not afford it? | |||||||
| Threshold: 5.11 | – | – | – | – | – | 0.01 | 0.12 * ** |
| Loading: 1.95 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Item 7. Had someone who needed a dentist but couldn't go because you could not afford it? | |||||||
| Threshold: 3.94 | – | – | -1.07 * ** | – | – | -0.15 * ** | – |
| Loading: 1.76 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Psychosocial threat | Sex | Age | Black | Hispanic | Other | INR | Education |
| Factor mean: 0.00a | -0.14 * ** | -0.01 * ** | 0.08 | -0.03 | -0.09 * ** | 0.01 | |
| Factor variance: 1.00a | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Item 1. We fight a lot in our family. | |||||||
| Threshold: 1.85 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Loading: 2.12 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Item 2. Family members rarely become openly angry.b | |||||||
| Threshold: 0.88 | 0.12 * | – | 0.23 * * | – | – | – | -0.04 * ** |
| Loading: 0.93 | 0.33 * ** | – | -0.24 * | – | – | – | 0.05 * ** |
| Item 3. Family members sometimes get so angry they throw things. | |||||||
| Threshold: 2.60 | – | – | – | -0.42 * ** | – | -0.11 * ** | – |
| Loading: 1.46 | – | – | – | – | – | ||
| Item 4. Family members hardly ever lose their tempers.b | |||||||
| Threshold: 0.56 | -0.04 | – | -0.17 | -0.31 * ** | – | 0.05 * * | -0.04 * * |
| Loading: 1.38 | 0.29 * * | – | -0.31 * * | – | – | 0.07 * * | – |
| Item 5. Family members often criticize each other. | |||||||
| Threshold: 1.86 | – | – | 0.12 | – | – | – | – |
| Loading: 1.37 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Item 6. Family members sometimes hit each other. | |||||||
| Threshold: 1.60 | -0.24 * ** | -0.02 * ** | – | -0.51 * ** | – | -0.06 * ** | – |
| Loading: 1.63 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Item 7. If there's a disagreement in our family, we try hard to smooth things over and keep the peace.b | |||||||
| Threshold: 2.66 | – | – | – | – | – | -0.04 * | – |
| Loading: 1.02 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Item 8. Family members often try to one-up or outdo each other. | |||||||
| Threshold: 1.46 | – | 0.020 * ** | – | – | – | – | – |
| Loading: 1.07 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Item 9. In our family, we believe you don't ever get anywhere by raising your voice.b | |||||||
| Threshold: 1.15 | -0.14 * * | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Loading: 0.61 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Caregiver social support | Sex | Age | Black | Hispanic | Other | INR | Education |
| Factor mean: 0.00a | 0.19 * ** | 0.01 * * | -0.02 | – | -0.15 * ** | 0.02 * | -0.004 |
| Factor variance: 1.00a | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Item 1. Makes me feel better after talking over my worries with him/her. | |||||||
| Threshold: − 2.05 | – | – | 0.37 * ** | – | – | – | – |
| Loading: 2.13 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Item 2. Smiles at me very often. | |||||||
| Threshold: − 1.40 | 0.27 * ** | – | – | – | – | 0.07 * ** | 0.05 * * |
| Loading: 1.48 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Item 3. Is able to make me feel better when I am upset. | |||||||
| Threshold: − 2.46 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Loading: 2.42 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Item 4. Believes in showing his/her love for me. | |||||||
| Threshold: − 4.72 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Loading: 2.59 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Item 5. Is easy to talk to. | |||||||
| Threshold: − 1.13 | -0.12 | -0.02 * ** | – | – | – | – | – |
| Loading: 1.34 | 0.39 * ** | – | – | – | – | – | – |
*p < .05, * *p < .01, * **p < .001.
a
Indicates parameter values are fixed to identify the model and set the scale of the latent variable.
b
Indicates item-reverse coded for interpretability.