CFA of five different factor structures
Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2023 11:07 am
Hi! I am writing a research paper on a psychometric instrument called the self-compassion scale (SCS). It is a 26-item self-questionnaire used to measure self-compassion as a total score of three bipolar components that togehter form six factors; self-kindness vs self-judgment (10 items), common humanity vs isolation (8 items), and mindfulness vs over-identification (8 items). There is an ongoing debate among researchers whether self-compassion should be measured as a single overarching construct or if it should be separated into two distinct constructs of self-compassion and self-uncompassion. Self-compassion would then consist of the sum of the compassionate self-responding items (CS) and self-uncompassion would consist of the sum of the reduced uncompassionate self-responding items (RUS).
To test which model best fit the data i made a confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) for five different models; a 1-factor model with a unitary self-compassion dimension, a 2-factor correlated model with two unitary factors representing CS and RUS, a 6-factor correlated model with six components loading onto a single over-arching construct of self-compassion, single bifactor model with one general self-compassion factor and six group factors, and a 2-bifactor correlated model with two correlated general factors, self-compassion and self-criticism, each with three group factors representing compassionate (CS) or reduced uncompassionate self-responding (RUS)).
I have attached a path diagram for each model as I would like to know if my models correspond to the ones described above.
To test which model best fit the data i made a confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) for five different models; a 1-factor model with a unitary self-compassion dimension, a 2-factor correlated model with two unitary factors representing CS and RUS, a 6-factor correlated model with six components loading onto a single over-arching construct of self-compassion, single bifactor model with one general self-compassion factor and six group factors, and a 2-bifactor correlated model with two correlated general factors, self-compassion and self-criticism, each with three group factors representing compassionate (CS) or reduced uncompassionate self-responding (RUS)).
I have attached a path diagram for each model as I would like to know if my models correspond to the ones described above.