Following this, the metric invariance was verified. The results indicated that full metric invariance was not well established. Indeed, the model was found to be more appropriate when one item (social presence 3) of the latent variable social presence was allowed to vary for the two groups. After releasing it and reevaluating the model, the results yielded satisfactory test statistics with χ2/df of 3.64, NFI of 0.958, CFI of 0.964, RMSEA of 0.052, and a SCDT of 0.097 ( 4 0.05). Thus, the partial metric invariance was achieved for the model.