Assessing measurement invariance of familism and parental respect across race/ethnicity in adolescents

Table 7 Parameter estimates from model 4 – all loadings constrained to equality across groups

Familism	Item 1	Item 2	Item 3	Item 4
Loading	1.00	1.14	0.97	1.25
Standardized loading (1)	0.70	0.79	0.67	0.87
Thresholds (2)	−1.92	−2.09	−1.69	−2.14
	−1.60	−1.68	−1.13	−1.70
	−0.64	−0.74	−0.31	−0.82
Parental Respect	Item 1	Item 2	Item 3	Item 4
Loading	1.00	1.16	1.17	1.09
Standardized loading (1)	0.95	0.85	0.86	0.93
Thresholds (2)	−1.89	−1.98	−2.00	−1.94
	−1.65	−1.68	−1.77	−1.75
	−1.01	−1.01	−1.22	−1.18

(1) Standardized loadings are determined by the loading and the variance of the items and latent variable, hence whilst unstandardized loadings are constrained to equality across groups, standardized loadings will differ; standardized loadings are shown for the white group.
(2) Thresholds are the log-odds of giving a response lower than the current threshold for an individual who has a score of 0 for the latent variable.

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