Potential sex differences in Figure 1 were further evaluated through an invariance procedure carried out in the SEM structure. In this approach the only significant chi square difference across steps was observed for correlations among indicators (or components) for latent variables (χ2 [1] = 4.82, p=0.03). No significant variation across sex was demonstrated for path estimates (χ2 [7] = 7.30, p=0.40), the variance of exogenous variables (χ2 [2] = 0.71, p=0.71), or for factor loadings (χ2 [9] = 10.18, p=0.34).
