Table 3 Testing wording effects for Attitudes Toward Obese Persons (ATOP) and Beliefs About Obese Persons (BAOP) using confirmatory factor analysis (N = 707)

χ² (df)

1040.72 (170)*

580.25 (163)*

211.38 (149)^#

297.82 (150)*

51.97 (20)*

46.42 (18)*

11.32 (11)*

24.33 (12)*

CFI

0.799

0.904

0.986

0.966

0.958

0.963

1.000

0.984

TLI

0.776

0.888

0.982

0.957

0.941

0.942

0.999

0.962

RMSEA (90% CI)

0.086 (0.081, 0.091)

0.060 (0.055, 0.066)

0.024 (0.016, 0.032)

0.038 (0.031, 0.044)

0.048 (0.032, 0.064)

0.047 (0.031, 0.064)

0.006 (0.000, 0.040)

0.038 (0.015, 0.060)

SRMR

0.092

0.069

0.041

0.049

0.050

0.047

0.024

0.035

ECVI

1.601

0.963

0.476

0.597

0.119

0.117

0.087

0.103