Journal of Eating Disorders

Table 3 Measurement invariance of the EAT-16 across sexes and BMI categories

From: Assessing disordered eating behaviours and attitudes: Factor structure and measurement invariance of the Arabic version of the eating attitudes test (EAT-26) in Saudi Arabia

	Overall fit indices					Comparative fit indices
Model	χ² (df)	p	CFI	RMSEA (90% CI)	SRMR	Δχ² (df)	p	ΔCFI	ΔRMSEA	ΔSRMR
Sex¹
Configural	1102.68 (196)	0.000	0.903	0.052 (.049-.055)	0.0557
Metric	1125.11 (208)	0.000	0.902	0.050 (.048-.053)	0.0557	22.43 (12)	0.032	0.001	0.002	0.0000
Scalar	1137.25 (220)	0.000	0.902	0.049 (.046-.052)	0.0556	12.15 (12)	0.433	0.000	0.001	0.0001
BMI categories²
Configural	1315.80 (392)	0.000	0.902	0.037 (.035-.039)	0.0752
Metric	1353.06 (428)	0.000	0.902	0.035 (.033-.037)	0.0751	37.26 (36)	0.411	0.000	0.002	0.0002
Scalar	1374.86 (464)	0.000	0.903	0.034 (.032-.036)	0.0750	21.8 (36)	0.970	0.001	0.001	0.0001

df = degrees of freedom; CFI = comparative fit index; RMSEA = root mean square error of approximation; CI = confidence interval; SRMR = standardized root mean square residual; ¹ Male vs. Female; ² Underweight, Normal weight, Overweight, and Obese

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