Authentic Leadership Questionnaire: invariance between samples of Brazilian and Portuguese employees

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Table 2 Fit statistics of the hypothesized models for Brazil and Portugal

	Sample	Number	X ²	X ²/df	df	NFI	CFI	PNFI	SRMR	RMSEA	90 % CI	Model AIC
First-order factor model	Brazilian	1019	863.38	8.81	98	.931	.938	.760	.041	.088	.082–.093*	939.12
First-order factor model	Portuguese	842	549.78	5.61	98	.903	.919	.738	.05	.074	.068–.080*	626.08
Second-order factor model	Brazilian	1019	929.95	9.30	100	.926	.933	.771	.044	.090	.085–.096*	1001.95
Second-order factor model	Portuguese	842	569.45	5.70	100	.900	.916	.750	.047	.075	.069–.081*	641.45

X ² chi-square, df degrees of freedom, NFI normed fit index, CFI comparative fit index, PNFI parsimony normed fit index, SRMR standardized root mean square residual, RMSEA root mean square error of approximation, CI confidence interval, Model AIC Akaike’s information criterion
*p < .001