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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Mar 14.
Published in final edited form as: Child Youth Serv Rev. 2020 Apr 6;113:104996. doi: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2020.104996

Table 5.

Retention of Scale Items at Each Level of Invariance

Levels of Invariance
Across Groups Across Time
Item No Item Wording Configurai Metric Scalar Configurai
adolescents
(caregivers)		 Metric
adolescents
(caregivers)		 Configurai
adolescents
(caregivers)
1 In times of crisis we can turn to each other for support x x x x (x) x (x) x (x)
2 We can express feelings to each other x x x x (x) x (x) x (x)
3 We feel accepted for what we are x x o x (x) x (x) o(x)
4 We are able to make decisions about how to solve problems x x x x (x) x (x) o(o)
5 We confide in each other x x o x (x) x (x) o(o)
Scale means for adolescents
(caregivers)		 3.17
(3.32)		 3.17
(3.32)		 3.23
(3.37)
Scale means for adolescents Time 1
(Time 2)		 3.17
(3.11)		 3.17
(3.11)		 3.26
(3.16)
Scale means for caregivers Time 1
(Time 2)		 3.32
(3.32)		 3.32
(3.32)		 3.37
(3.34)

Note: x = item retained, o = item not retained.