Measuring public attitudes towards people living with chronic diseases in Arabic-speaking populations: adaptation and development of the Social Stigma Scale of Chronic Diseases (SSS-CD)

Table 3 Measurement Invariance of the Social Stigma Scale of Chronic Diseases (SSS-CD) items Across Gender in the Second Split-Half Subsample

Model	χ²	df	CFI	RMSEA	SRMR	Model Comparison	Δχ²	ΔCFI	ΔRMSEA	ΔSRMR	Δdf	p
Configural	131.02	68	0.935	0.056	0.064
Metric	143.33	76	0.931	0.055	0.083	Configural vs. metric	12.31	0.004	0.001	0.019	8	0.138
Scalar	146.55	84	0.936	0.051	0.083	Metric vs. scalar	3.22	0.005	0.004	< 0.001	8	0.919

Note. CFI = Comparative fit index; RMSEA = Steiger-Lind root mean square error of approximation; SRMR = Standardised root mean square residual

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