A parent-report measure of children’s anxiety: psychometric properties of the Macquarie Anxiety Behavioural Scale (MABS) in a Chinese sample of preschool children

Table 3 Model comparisons for measurement invariance testing across younger (3- and 4-year-olds: N = 475) and older (5- and 6-year-olds: N = 532) groups

Model	S-B χ²	df	CFI	TLI	RMSEA	ΔCFI	ΔTLI	ΔRMSEA	Decision
Model 1	563.758	250	0.928	0.912	0.050
Model 2	574.305	263	0.928	0.917	0.048	0	0.005	-0.002	Accept
Model 3	600.235	276	0.925	0.917	0.048	-0.003	0	0	Accept
Model 4	678.980	294	0.911	0.908	0.051	-0.014	-0.009	0.003	Reject

NOTE: Model 1, configural invariance; Model 2, metric invariance; Model 3, scalar invariance; Model 4, residual invariance; S-B χ2, Satorra-Bentler scaled Chi-squared test; df, degrees of freedom; TLI, Tucker-Lewis index; CFI, comparative fit index; RMSEA, root-mean-square error of approximation; ΔCFI, ΔTLI, and ΔRMSEA values represent comparisons of in-row model with model immediately above the row

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