Invariance testing for gender in the model revealed overall similarities for path estimates, the variance of the exogenous variables (age and gender), and for factor loadings. While there was a lack of invariance (i.e., group differences existed) for correlations, these reflected relationships between error terms within latent constructs, and did not appear to have a major impact on the model overall, given that no other invariances were found. Visual inspection of the models evaluated separately for males and females corroborated their overall similarity.
