Results

Exploratory Factor Analysis

Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin test
  MSA
Overall MSA 0.878
CAS1 0.895
CAS2 0.901
CAS3 0.833
CAS4 0.851
CAS5 0.890
CAS6 0.882
CAS7 0.920
Bartlett's test
Χ² df p
3753.987 21.000 < .001
Chi-squared Test
  Value df p
Model 32.964 8 < .001
Factor Loadings
  Factor 1 Factor 2 Uniqueness
CAS5 0.760   0.468
CAS1 0.756   0.468
CAS2 0.678   0.415
CAS7 0.587   0.589
CAS3   0.936 0.267
CAS4   0.794 0.288
CAS6   0.649 0.310
Note.  Applied rotation method is promax.
Factor Loadings (Structure Matrix)
  Factor 1 Factor 2
CAS1 0.729  
CAS2 0.760 0.594
CAS3 0.540 0.852
CAS4 0.627 0.842
CAS5 0.729  
CAS6 0.691 0.814
CAS7 0.639  
Note.  Applied rotation method is promax.
Factor Characteristics
  SumSq. Loadings Proportion var. Cumulative
Factor 1 2.135 0.305 0.305
Factor 2 2.060 0.294 0.599
Factor Correlations
  Factor 1 Factor 2
Factor 1 1.000 0.795
Factor 2 0.795 1.000
Additional fit indices
RMSEA RMSEA 90% confidence TLI BIC
0.053 0.035 - 0.072 0.982 -23.212

Path Diagram

Scree plot

Confirmatory Factor Analysis

Model fit

Chi-square test
Model Χ² df p
Baseline model 3767.992 21  
Factor model 104.768 13 < .001

Additional fit measures

Fit indices
Index Value
Comparative Fit Index (CFI) 0.976
Tucker-Lewis Index (TLI) 0.960
Bentler-Bonett Non-normed Fit Index (NNFI) 0.960
Bentler-Bonett Normed Fit Index (NFI) 0.972
Parsimony Normed Fit Index (PNFI) 0.602
Bollen's Relative Fit Index (RFI) 0.955
Bollen's Incremental Fit Index (IFI) 0.976
Relative Noncentrality Index (RNI) 0.976
Information criteria
  Value
Log-likelihood -7497.739
Number of free parameters 15.000
Akaike (AIC) 15025.478
Bayesian (BIC) 15100.807
Sample-size adjusted Bayesian (SSABIC) 15053.163
Other fit measures
Metric Value
Root mean square error of approximation (RMSEA) 0.079
RMSEA 90% CI lower bound 0.066
RMSEA 90% CI upper bound 0.094
RMSEA p-value 2.855e -4
Standardized root mean square residual (SRMR) 0.031
Hoelter's critical N (α = .05) 240.269
Hoelter's critical N (α = .01) 297.259
Goodness of fit index (GFI) 0.975
McDonald fit index (MFI) 0.960
Expected cross validation index (ECVI) 0.120
R-Squared
 
CAS1 0.517
CAS2 0.602
CAS5 0.505
CAS7 0.418
CAS3 0.656
CAS4 0.718
CAS6 0.709

Parameter estimates

Factor loadings
95% Confidence Interval
Factor Indicator Symbol Estimate Std. Error z-value p Lower Upper Std. Est. (all)
Factor 1 CAS1 λ11 0.458 0.018 25.774 < .001 0.423 0.493 0.719
  CAS2 λ12 0.571 0.020 28.534 < .001 0.532 0.611 0.776
  CAS5 λ13 0.502 0.020 25.374 < .001 0.464 0.541 0.711
  CAS7 λ14 0.437 0.019 22.447 < .001 0.399 0.476 0.646
Factor 2 CAS3 λ21 0.817 0.026 31.397 < .001 0.766 0.868 0.810
  CAS4 λ22 0.841 0.025 33.522 < .001 0.792 0.890 0.847
  CAS6 λ23 0.749 0.023 33.222 < .001 0.704 0.793 0.842
Factor variances
95% Confidence Interval
Factor Estimate Std. Error z-value p Lower Upper Std. Est. (all)
Factor 1 1.000 0.000   1.000 1.000 1.000
Factor 2 1.000 0.000   1.000 1.000 1.000
Factor Covariances
95% Confidence Interval
      Estimate Std. Error z-value p Lower Upper Std. Est. (all)
Factor 1 Factor 2 0.770 0.019 41.581 < .001 0.734 0.806 0.770
Residual variances
95% Confidence Interval
Indicator Estimate Std. Error z-value p Lower Upper Std. Est. (all)
CAS1 0.196 0.010 18.831 < .001 0.176 0.216 0.483
CAS2 0.216 0.013 16.810 < .001 0.191 0.241 0.398
CAS5 0.247 0.013 19.066 < .001 0.222 0.273 0.495
CAS7 0.267 0.013 20.463 < .001 0.241 0.293 0.582
CAS3 0.350 0.020 17.555 < .001 0.311 0.389 0.344
CAS4 0.278 0.018 15.436 < .001 0.243 0.313 0.282
CAS6 0.230 0.015 15.774 < .001 0.201 0.258 0.291
Implied covariance matrix
CAS1 CAS2 CAS5 CAS7 CAS3 CAS4 CAS6
0.406
0.262 0.542
0.230 0.287 0.500
0.200 0.250 0.220 0.458
0.288 0.359 0.316 0.275 1.017
0.297 0.370 0.325 0.283 0.687 0.986
0.264 0.329 0.290 0.252 0.611 0.630 0.790
Residual covariance matrix
CAS1 CAS2 CAS5 CAS7 CAS3 CAS4 CAS6
< .001
0.002 < .001
0.010 < .001 < .001
< .001 < .001 0.010 < .001
< .001 < .001 < .001 < .001 < .001
< .001 0.011 < .001 < .001 0.030 < .001
0.001 0.055 0.012 0.037 < .001 < .001 < .001

Modification Indices

Cross-loadings
      Mod. Ind. EPC
Factor 1 CAS6 49.151 0.295
Factor 1 CAS3 37.248 -0.288
Factor 2 CAS2 12.863 0.145
Factor 2 CAS1 8.753 -0.101
Residual covariances
      Mod. Ind. EPC
CAS3 CAS4 49.151 0.143
CAS4 CAS6 37.248 -0.117
CAS2 CAS6 22.049 0.044
CAS5 CAS3 18.797 -0.048
CAS7 CAS6 7.872 0.026
CAS2 CAS7 7.376 -0.028
CAS7 CAS4 7.275 -0.028
CAS1 CAS5 4.797 0.020
CAS2 CAS3 4.103 -0.022
CAS5 CAS4 4.013 0.021

Plots

Model plot

# Factors

Factor1 =~ lambda_1_1*CAS1 + lambda_1_2*CAS2 + lambda_1_3*CAS5 + lambda_1_4*CAS7

Factor2 =~ lambda_2_1*CAS3 + lambda_2_2*CAS4 + lambda_2_3*CAS6