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Published in final edited form as: Infant Child Dev. 2022 Apr 27;31(4):e2316. doi: 10.1002/icd.2316

Table 7.

Comparison of Alternate Structural Models to the Full Model, Listing Fit Statistics when the Variable is Included or Excluded and Difference from Full Model

		Fit Statistics

Model		RMSEA	CFI	AIC	BIC

1	Base model with income predicting child outcomes	0.19	0.41	43810.53	44403.40
2	Income and parent distress predicting child outcomes	0.19	0.56	43427.30	44088.21
3	Income and parent support predicting child outcomes	0.14	0.77	42836.96	43497.87
4	Income, parent distress, and parent support predicting child outcomes	0.11	0.93	42431.09	43164.89
5	Full model with all variables (income, parent distress, parent support and material hardship) predicting child outcomes	0.08	0.99	42257.20	43068.75

		Difference from Full Model (Model 5)

Model		χ²	df	AIC	BIC

1	Base model with income predicting child outcomes	1643.33^***	45	1553.33	1334.65
2	Income and parent distress predicting child outcomes	1232.10^***	31	1170.10	1019.46
3	Income and parent support predicting child outcomes	641.76^***	31	579.76	429.12
4	Income, parent distress, and parent support predicting child outcomes	205.89^***	16	173.89	96.14

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