Research Article

The Poverty-Related Stress Scale: Development and Validation of a Multidimensional Measure Assessing Poverty-Related Stressors

Table 9

Longitudinal invariance for the H-ESEM model.
(a)

Model typedfCFITLIRMSEA [Est.; CI]SRMRMeets fit criteriaMeets invariance criteria

M1-configural invariance889.283420.940.920.06; [0.054-0.063]0.07YesYes
M2-metric invariance1016.053750.930.920.06; [0.056-0.065]0.40YesYes
M3-scalar invariance1047.533870.930.920.06; [0.056-0.065]0.06YesYes

(b)

Model comparisons
Comparison

M3 vs. M1158.25-0.01-0.01<0.010.01
M2 vs. M1126.77-0.01-0.010.010.01
M3 vs. M231.48<0.01<0.01<0.01<0.01

Note. Models were compared based on Chen’s [73] criteria: changes in RMSEA (; ), SRMR ( for configural versus metric/scalar; for metric versus scalar), CFI (), and TLI ().