Table 2.

Alignment Fit Statistics.

	Factor Loadings		Intercepts		Factor Loadings + Intercepts
Item Code	Fit Function Contribution	R2	Fit Function Contribution	R2	Total Contribution
Useless
Item 1	−136.881	0.878	−163.207	0.814	−300.088
Item 2	−134.464	0.898	−152.257	0.902	−286.721
Item 3	−131.675	0.943	−127.993	0.969	−259.668
Item 4	−130.332	0.943	−133.887	0.940	−264.220
Distrust
Item 5	−164.872	0.249	−242.401	0.509	−407.273
Item 6	−187.521	0.452	−197.492	0.825	−385.013
Item 7	−165.045	0.346	−183.488	0.789	−348.532
Item 8	−145.813	0.649	−162.651	0.815	−308.465
Item 9	−150.295	0.663	−173.275	0.882	−323.570
Item 10	−159.713	0.103	−217.085	0.000	−376.798
Populism
Item 11	−143.368	0.624	−187.273	0.727	−330.641
Item 12	−149.007	0.763	−201.916	0.869	−350.923
Item 13	−185.306	0.557	−226.041	0.737	−411.347

Note: The R2 value gives the parameter variation across groups in the configural model that is explained by variation in the factor mean and factor variance across groups. A value close to 1 implies a high degree of invariance and a value close to 0 implies a low degree of invariance (Asparouhov and Muthén, 2014, p. 6 [44]).