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Fit of the seven items to each subscale (data not shown) and reduced item factors for the smaller sample (BiB1000) was broadly similar to the BiB cohort (Table 7), except for some severe model estimation problems on the reduced Severe Depression subscale (items 23 26).
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Subsequently, item factor loadings were constrained to be equal across the gender groups, resulting in a model of metric invariance.
Table 5 shows the MSRS-R item factor loadings.
The cutoff for item factor loadings was set at a coefficient level of ≥0.40.
Metric and Scalar models incrementally constrain item factor loadings and response category thresholds between groups.
With few exceptions, item factor loadings for the six-factor model exceeded the expected magnitude for item convergence (r > 0.40).
Categorical item factor analysis in M plus does not report item thresholds which are directly comparable to IRT parameters.
Exploratory item factor analysis (EFA) was used instead to give LD, or additional dimensions, an opportunity to become visible.
The significance of an item factor loading was set at a coefficient level of 0.30 or greater [ 20].
All but one of the original 11 AIDS stigma items loaded on a single factor with item factor loadings between 0.40 and 0.78.
Results showed that all 11 TB stigma items loaded on a single factor with item factor loadings between 0.45 and 0.70.
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