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Table 4 Loadings and thresholds for measurement invariant model, 2018

From: Measuring public knowledge on nuclear weapons in the post-Cold War: dimensionality and measurement invariance across eight European countries

 

Unidimensional

Bifactor

 

General

Threshold

General

Specific 1

Specific 2

Specific 3

Threshold

United States

0.90

− 0.97

0.94

   

− 0.93

Russia

0.88

− 0.93

0.92

   

− 0.89

China

0.79

− 0.41

0.82

   

− 0.37

Israel

0.74

0.11

0.67

0.51

  

0.07

India

0.84

0.47

0.78

0.51

  

0.43

Pakistan

0.72

0.38

0.65

0.51

  

0.34

Fire

0.60

− 0.34

0.56

 

0.62

 

− 0.58

Blast

0.65

− 0.58

0.62

 

0.62

 

− 0.82

Hiroshima

0.78

− 1.03

0.75

  

0.57

− 0.85

Nagasaki

0.76

− 0.47

0.73

  

0.57

− 0.28

  1. Note: Parameters for models with invariant thresholds, loadings, and intercepts, with the scale of latent variates y* fixed to unit. Right-side panel reports parameters for the bifactor model in Table 3, model B2. Unidimensional model with invariant parameters included in the left-side. All parameters are statistically significant at p > 0.01