Table 6 Measurement invariance of the BPNSFS across country and gender levels
Level of measurement invariance | Model fit indices | Model comparison indices | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
df | CFI | TLI | RMSEA | Δχ2 | Δdf | ΔCFI | ΔRMSEA | ||
Country | |||||||||
C1: Configural | 1619.19 | 1185 | 0.917 | 0.904 | 0.045 | – | – | – | – |
C2: Metric | 1809.82 | 1257 | 0.895 | 0.885 | 0.049 | 190.63 | 72 | − 0.022 | 0.004 |
C3: Scalar | 1897.99 | 1301 | 0.889 | 0.882 | 0.05 | 88.17 | 44 | − 0.006 | 0.001 |
Gender | |||||||||
G1: Configural | 734.71 | 474 | 0.946 | 0.937 | 0.035 | – | – | – | – |
G2: Metric | 750.52 | 492 | 0.946 | 0.94 | 0.035 | 15.81 | 18 | 0 | 0 |
G3: Scalar | 791.23 | 510 | 0.942 | 0.937 | 0.035 | 40.71 | 18 | − 0.004 | 0 |