Table 1.
Sociodemographic characteristics of the study participants.
Table 2.
Competitive CFA–goodness-of-fit indices obtained for the structural models.
Fig 1.
Standardized parameter estimates and factor correlations. Notes: All standardized estimates were p < .001; the numbers within squares represent the original numbers of the items in the CIE-A (as shown in Table 3).
Table 3.
Item descriptive—factorial composition and bootstrapped bias-corrected coefficients of the retained three-factor model for the CIE-A.
Table 4.
Concurrent validity (bivariate correlations) between CIE-A factors and theoretically related Criterion Variables (CVs).
Table 5.
Descriptive data, confidence intervals and Welch’s robust mean comparisons.
Categorical factor: Gender.
Fig 2.
Gender-based score comparisons for the three CIE-A dimensions. Compared values represent aggregate scale scores.