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Table 6 WEMWBS and SWEMWBS measurement invariance across countries and gender groups

From: A validation study of the Arabic version of the Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being scale among undergraduate students

Scales/Level of MI

Model fit indices

Model comparison indices

\({\chi }^{2}\)

DF

CFI

TLI

RMSEA

\(\varDelta {\chi }^{2}\)

df

CFI

RMSEA

WEMWBS

         

 Cross Country

         

 A1: Configural

413.73

204

0.924

0.900

0.039

-

-

-

-

 A2: Metric

455.28

230

0.919

0.903

0.038

41.55

26

-0.005

-0.001

 A3: Scalar

551.86

258

0.894

0.888

0.041

96.58

28

-0.025

0.003

 A3a: Partial Scalar (1, 2, 12)

498.66

252

0.911

0.904

0.038

43.38

22

-0.008

0

 Cross Gender

         

 B1: Configural

333.66

136

0.931

0.908

0.046

-

-

-

-

 B2: Metric

373.05

149

0.922

0.905

0.047

39.39

13

-0.009

0.001

 B3: Scalar

534.98

163

0.870

0.855

0.058

161.93

14

-0.052

0.011

 B3a: Partial Scalar (1, 2)

442.08

158

0.901

0.886

0.051

69.03

9

-0.021

0.004

SWEMWBS

         

 Cross Country

         

 C1: Configural

30.73

30

0.999

0.998

0.006

-

-

-

-

 C2: Metric

54.25

42

0.987

0.981

0.021

23.52

12

-0.012

0.015

 C2a: Partial Metric (9)

47.94

40

0.992

0.987

0.017

17.21

10

-0.007

0.011

 C3: Scalar

113.94

56

0.940

0.933

0.039

66

16

-0.052

0.022

 C3a: Partial Scalar (1, 2)

69.62

50

0.982

0.975

0.024

21.68

10

-0.010

0.007

 Cross Gender

         

 D1: Configural

23.36

22

0.999

0.997

0.009

-

-

-

-

 D2: Metric

35.88

28

0.992

0.988

0.020

12.52

6

-0.007

0.011

 D3: Scalar

86.85

35

0.949

0.939

0.046

50.97

7

-0.043

0.026

 D3a: Partial Scalar (1, 2)

57.46

33

0.983

0.970

0.033

21.58

5

-0.009

0.013