Table 1.
Participants’ demographic characteristics.
Table 2.
Descriptive statistics and Mardia’s test for normality of study variables by country.
Table 3.
Fit indices of measurement models for PIL-SF, HHI, and GAD-7 across countries.
Table 4.
Overall model fit indices for the latent variable structure across countries.
Fig 1.
Structural equation model of the relationships between purpose in life, hope, and anxiety.
χ2(831) = 2622.77; p < .05; CFI = .99; TLI = .99; RMSEA = .067 IC90% [.064 −.070]; SRMR = .074. Bidirectional lines represent latent relationships. All coefficients were significant at p < .001. Data are presented in the following order: Bolivia/ Colombia/ Ecuador.
Fig 2.
Mediation model of hope in the relationship between purpose in life and anxiety.
χ2(831)= 2622.77; p < .05; CFI = .99; TLI = .99; RMSEA = .067 IC90% [.064 −.070]; SRMR = .074. ns = non-significant; *** p < .001. Error terms and item indicators were removed for clarity.
Table 5.
Measurement equivalence between countries in the mediation model.
Table 6.
Models of equivalence of direct and indirect effects across countries.