Are need for affect and cognition culture dependent? Implications for global public health campaigns: a cross-sectional study

Zhang, Min; Zhu, Bei; Yuan, Chunlan; Zhao, Chao; Wang, Jiaofeng; Ruan, Qingwei; Han, Chao; Bao, Zhijun; Chen, Jie; Arceneaux, Kevin ( Vin); Wielen, Ryan Vander; Siegle, Greg J.

doi:10.1186/s12889-021-10689-w

Table 4 Invariance tests of the basic CFA model between the Chinese group and American group

From: Are need for affect and cognition culture dependent? Implications for global public health campaigns: a cross-sectional study

Model	Description	λ²	df	p	CFI	TLI	NFI	RMSEA	AIC	ECVI	Test	ΔCFI	ΔRMSEA
M0	Baseline model, no constraints on model parameters	263.124	26	<.001	0.977	0.941	0.966	0.030	607.124	0.283	–	–	–
M1	All factor loadings constrained to be equal	408.270	35	<.001	0.959	0.922	0.947	0.047	704.270	0.329	M1-M0	−0.018	0.017
M2	“Approach” factor loadings constrained to be equal	281.146	31	<.001	0.971	0.949	0.963	0.032	654.146	0.296	M2-M0	−0.006	0.002
M3	“Avoidance” factor loadings constrained to be equal	367.272	31	<.001	0.962	0.943	0.948	0.042	720.272	0.655	M3-M0	−0.015	0.012
M4	All factor loadings constrained to be equal except item NFA_10	292.361	34	<.001	0.969	0.945	0.951	0.039	679.025	0.309	M4-M0	−0.008	0.009
M5	All factor loadings and the vectors of item intercepts constrained to be equal	335.565	73	<.001	0.953	0.929	0.942	0.049	762.515	0.683	M5-M1	−0.006	0.002
M6	All factor loadings and the variances of constructs constrained to be equal	320.461	41	<.001	0.951	0.931	0.944	0.045	738.461	0.398	M6-M1	−0.008	−0.002
M7	All factor loadings and the factor covariance constrained to be equal	518.586	45	<.001	0.946	0.908	0.939	0.061	822.586	0.703	M7-M1	−0.013	0.014

Criteria for accepting the null hypothesis of invariance (Chen et al [43])
≥ − .010
≤.015
ΔCFI Change in CFI, ΔRMSEA Change in RMSEA
M0: Testing configural invariance between groups, i.e., H₀ = Both groups associate the same subsets of items with the same constructs;
M1-M0: Testing construct-level metric invariance between groups, i.e., H₀ = The strength of the relationships between items and their underlying constructs are the same between groups;
M2-M0: Testing the metric invariance of “Approach” between groups, i.e., H₀ = The strength of the relationships between 5 approach items and the construct “Approach” are the same between groups;
M3-M0: Testing the metric invariance of “Avoidance” between groups, i.e., H₀ = The strength of the relationships between 5 avoidance items and the construct “Avoidance” are the same between groups;
M4-M0: Testing the metric invariance of item NFA_10 between groups, i.e., H₀ = The strength of the relationship between NFA_10 and the construct “Avoidance” is the same between groups;
M5-M1: Testing the scalar equivalence of items between groups, i.e., H₀ = The values of each item corresponding to the zero value of the underlying constructs are the same between groups;
M6-M1: Testing equivalence of construct variances between groups, i.e., H₀ = The variances of “Approach” and “Avoidance” are the same between groups;
M7-M1: Testing the equivalence of construct covariance between groups, i.e., H₀ = The covariance between “Approach” and “Avoidance” is the same between groups;

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