Psychometric properties of the Sport Mental Health Continuum – Short Form scale (Sport MHC-SF): cross-cultural validation and measurement invariance of the Chinese adaptation

Table 5 C-Sport MHC baseline model fit results and tests of invariance across sport ranked

Model	χ² (df)	CFI	TLI	SRMR	RMSEA (90% CI)	Compari-sons	ΔCFI	ΔTLI	ΔRMSEA
M1. RUA	180.077 (74)	0.961	0.952	0.033	0.056 (0.045–0.066)
M2. NRUA	155.872 (74)	0.975	0.969	0.028	0.044 (0.035–0.054)
M3. Configural	335.559 (148)	0.969	0.961	0.03	0.050 (0.043–0.057)
M4. Metric	355.9 (159)	0.967	0.962	0.039	0.049 (0.042–0.056)	M4-M3	−0.002	0.001	−0.001
M5. Scalar	370.067 (170)	0.966	0.964	0.041	0.048 (0.041- 0.055)	M5-M4	−0.001	0.002	−0.001
M6. Strict	391.383 (184)	0.965	0.966	0.053	0.047 (0.040–0.053)	M6-M5	−0.001	0.002	−0.001

RUA ranked university athletes, NRUA non-ranked university athletes, χ² chi-square goodness of fit, df degrees of freedom, CFI comparative fit index, TLI Tucker–Lewis index, RMSEA root mean square error of approximation, 90% CI 90% confidence intervals, ΔCFI CFI difference, ΔTLI TLI difference, ΔRMSEA RMSEA difference

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