TABLE 5.

Goodness-of-fit indexes for measurement invariance of the EQ-i between men and women.

Models	χ2	df	RMSEA	90% RMSEA	TLI	CFI	SRMR	Model comparisons	| Δ CFI|
M1	10.869	4	0.057	0.017–0.099	0.983	0.997	0.014
M2	12.420	8	0.032	0.000–0.065	0.998	0.995	0.025	M2–M1	0.002
M3	172.802	12	0.159	0.138–0.180	0.870	0.922	0.091	M3–M2	0.073
M3*	151.976	11	0.155	0.134–0.178	0.876	0.932	0.091	M3*–M2	0.063
M3**	42.491	10	0.078	0.055–0.103	0.968	0.984	0.037	M3**–M2	0.011
M3***	12.563	9	0.027	0.000–0.060	0.996	0.998	0.025	M3***–M2	0.003
M4	25.217	14	0.039	0.011–0.063	0.992	0.995	0.066	M4–M3***	0.003
M5	29.070	15	0.042	0.018–0.065	0.991	0.993	0.081

ΔCFIs lower than | 0.01| are in bold type. M1: model for configural invariance; M2: model for metric invariance; M3: model for scalar invariance; M3*: model M3 with free intercept for the Intrapersonal EI factor; M3**: model M3 with free intercepts for the Intrapersonal and Interpersonal EI factors; M3***: model M3 with free intercepts for the Intrapersonal, Interpersonal and Stress Management EI factors; M4: model M3*** with fixed residual variances; M5: model M4 with latent factor means equal across groups. Bold values represent the ΔCFI values <0.01.