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Table 4 Fit indices of the 5-factor BSEM models with different priors for the FFMQ-SF

From: Psychometric properties of the Chinese version of Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire—short form in cancer patients: a Bayesian structural equation modeling approach

Model

Prior specification

#

pD

pppp

2.5% PPL

97.5% PPL

PPP

DIC

RMSEA

CFI

1

Uninformative

70

72

100.4

204.3

.000

6403

0.091

0.84

Informative priors on cross-loadings

2

var = 0.01

150

100

.12

12.5

132.7

.008

6352

0.072

0.92

3

var = 0.02

150

108

.61

− 3.0

117.5

.030

6343

0.066

0.93

4

var = 0.04

150

115

.94

− 8.0

115.7

.044

6347

0.066

0.94

5

Revised Model 3

150

107

.70

− 4.8

111.7

.037

6339

0.065

0.94

Informative priors on residual covariance

6

d = 10

340

211

.44

− 75.5

50.9

.662

6377

0.010

1.00

7

d = 20

340

209

.20

− 78.9

42.2

.726

6369

0.000

1.00

8

d = 30

340

214

.06

− 73.6

50.0

.644

6381

0.020

0.99

Informative priors on cross-loadings with one residual covariance

9

Revised Model 5

151

108

.75

− 14.9

97.6

.073

6329

0.060

0.95

  1. N = 127; # = number of free parameters; pD = estimated number of parameters; pppp = prior posterior predictive p value; PPL = posterior predictive limit; PPP = posterior predictive p value; DIC = Deviance information criterion; RMSEA = Root mean square error of approximation; CFI = comparative fit index; d = degree of freedom