Confirmatory factor analysis and gender invariance of Persian version of the modified Yale food addiction scale (mPYFAS) 2.0: insight from a large scale Iranian sample

Table 7 Alpha statistics, combined reliability and diagnostic validity of AVE by the whole sample, women and men of FA 11 items

Data type	Group	α	α_ord	Composite reliability^a	AVE
Polytomous	Total	0.871	0.915	0.895	0.510
	Male	0.846	0.908	0.877	0.490
	Female	0.875	0.917	0.898	0.516
Dichotomous	Total	0.836	0.935	0.865	0.586
	Male	0.797	0.936	0.832	0.555
	Female	0.842	0.937	0.870	0.593

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