“…It is a popular statistical technique for multivariate data analysis in social and behavioural sciences, and it use in education has been recently increased (Leguina, 2015) The fit indices used were CFI, TLI, RMSEA, SRMR, and the CMIN/DF ratio. Acceptable fit indices are as follows : CFI, and TLI > .9 (Eckhaus & Davidovitch, 2020), CMIN/DF should be should be < 3 (Eckhaus & Davidovitch, 2019a), however, the more strict approach argues that the ratio should be between 1 and 2 (Rohani, Sadeghi, Eslami, Raei, & Jafari-Koshki, 2018), RMSEA and SRMR < = 0.05 (Franklin, Burns, & Lee, 2014).…”