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Psychology: Research and Review

Table 4 Factorial invariance models between women (n = 1115) and men (n = 732)

From: Psychometric properties of the Brief-COPE for the evaluation of coping strategies in the Chilean population

Models

χ 2 (df)

Δχ2

CFI

ΔCFI

TLI

RMSEA

AIC

M1: configural

1530.59 (518)

0.93

0.89

0.03

2230.59

M2: metric

1550.46 (532)

− 19.87

0.93

− 0.01

0.89

0.03

2222.46

M3: strong

1715.15 (560)

− 164.69

0.92

− 0.01

0.89

0.03

2331.15

M4: strict

1755.62 (588)

− 40.47

0.92

− 0.00

0.89

0.03

2315.62

  1. M1 = not constrained; M2 = M1 + invariant factor loadings; M3 = M2 + invariant intercepts; M4 = M3 + invariant error variances and covariances
  2. Note: CFI comparative fit index, TLI Tucker-Lewis index, RMSEA root mean square error of approximation, AIC Akaike’s information criterion