We also conducted multi-group path analyses to examine whether the patterns of associations differed between males and females, and across age groups. Multigroup analyses were conducted by removing sex or age from the path model and then comparing a model with all remaining paths constrained to equality with another model that had all paths freely estimated across the comparison groups (i.e., females vs males; emerging adulthood vs young adulthood vs middle adulthood). A statistically significant Wald chi-square test of parameter equalities would indicate significant differences in path coefficients across groups.
