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Figure 4. Assessment of differences in factor means using the SEM multiple-groups approach. Note: Groups 0 and 1 are asthmatics with married parents and asthmatics with recently divorced parents, respectively. V1 through V4 are the disengagement, denial, problem-focused coping, and seeking social support scales, respectively. F1 and F2 are the avoidant and active coping factors, respectively. The values on the paths between the estimated population mean (
) and the factors are the estimated population factor means. For both MI and MU, they are assigned a value of zero in group 0. For MI, the estimates for group 1 are unconstrained and allowed to differ from the estimates for group 0. For MC, the estimates for group 1 are constrained to be the same as the estimates for group 0 (i.e., 0). The values on the paths between the intercepts and the scales are the estimated population intercepts and are constrained to be equal across groups for both models.
