Results from MGCFA indicated the measurement model allowing factor loadings to be freely estimated across gender groups (χ2 = 36.57, df = 10, CFI = .983) and the model constraining factor loadings to equality across gender groups (χ2 = 48.26, df = 14, CFI = .979) were not significantly different in terms of model fit (Δχ2= 12.01, Δdf = 4, p = .02, ΔCFI = −.004), suggesting that factor loadings were also invariant across the gender groups in the measurement model assessing fathers’ and mothers’ positive parenting. Multi-group SEM analysis indicated no significant differences in path coefficients across gender (Δχ2= 9.00, Δdf = 12, p = .70). This suggested that the patterns of associations among the various constructs in the model were similar between adolescent males and females.
