Figure 1. MANOVA using the SEM multiple-groups approach. Group 0 represents asthmatics with married parents, whereas group 1 represents asthmatics with recently divorced parents. V₁ through V₄ are the disengagement, denial, problem-focused coping, and seeking social support scales, respectively. The values on the paths between the estimated population mean () and the scales represent estimates of population means for the scales. For M_I, the values are unconstrained and are estimates for the specific groups. For M_C, these estimates are constrained to be equal between groups. For both M_I and M_C, the variances and covariances among the errors are assumed to be equal between groups.