Anatomy Education Environment Measurement Inventory (AEEMI): a cross-validation study in Malaysian medical schools

Table 3 Proposed models of AEEMI and goodness-of-fit indices

Model	χ ² statistics (df)	P-value	Goodness-of-fit indices
Model	χ ² statistics (df)	P-value	χ ²/df	RMSEA	GFI	CFI	NFI	TLI
Model A: Six-domain model (25 items) ^a	4208.91 (1536)	< 0.001	2.740	0.023	0.905	0.920	0.880	0.906
Model B: Six-domain model (20 items) ^b	1782.66 (906)	< 0.001	1.968	0.017	0.949	0.968	0.935	0.958
Model C: Five-domain model (20 items) ^c	2036.36 (960)	< 0.001	2.121	0.018	0.943	0.960	0.928	0.953
Model D: Five-domain model (26 items) ^d	3300.71 (1680)	< 0.001	1.965	0.017	0.929	0.962	0.927	0.956

^aBased on the 25-item AEEMI by Hadie et al. (2017)
^bRevised AEEMI with 20 items based on Hadie et al. (2017)
^cThe new 20-item AEEMI proposed by this study
^dThe final 26-item AEEMI based on the combination of Models 2 and 3
χ ²/df Chi square/degree of freedom, RMSEA root mean square of error approximation, GFI goodness-of-fit index, CFI comparative fit index, NFI normed fit index, TLI Tucker–Lewis index

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