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 type
df
CFI
TLI
RMSEA [Est.; CI]
SRMR
Meets fit criteria
Meets invariance criteria
M1-configural invariance
889.28
342
0.94
0.92
0.06; [0.054-0.063]
0.07
Yes
Yes
M2-metric invariance
1016.05
375
0.93
0.92
0.06; [0.056-0.065]
0.40
Yes
Yes
M3-scalar invariance
1047.53
387
0.93
0.92
0.06; [0.056-0.065]
0.06
Yes
Yes
(b)
Model comparisons
Comparison
M3 vs. M1
158.25
-0.01
-0.01
<0.01
0.01
M2 vs. M1
126.77
-0.01
-0.01
0.01
0.01
M3 vs. M2
31.48
<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 ().