Gender, planning, and academic expectations in first-year higher education students: testing two alternative mediation models

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Table 2 Measurement invariance of the 10-item IEM unifactorial model across 2014/2015 and 2015/2016 samples

Model	Form invariance	Weak invariance	Strong invariance	Strong invariance^a	Strict invariance^a
df	70	79	89	87	97
SBχ²	105.92	120.36	396.81	134.37	160.01
RMSEA [90% CI]	.039 [.023; .054]	.040 [.025; .054]	.103 [.092; .113]	.041 [.026; .054]	.044 [.032; .056]
SRMR (2014/15)	.040	.049	.051	.048	.059
SRMR (2015/16)	.055	.069	.072	.068	.080
CFI	.990	.989	.917	.987	.983
ΔCFI	–	.001	.072	.002	.004

Results in bold indicate between-samples equivalence
SB Satorra-Bentler, RMSEA root mean square error of approximation, SRMR standardized root mean square residual, CFI comparative fit index, Δ difference between baseline (smaller df) and restricted models (larger df)
^aPartial: items 2 and 12 with intercepts freely estimated across samples