Shunji Wang, Katerina M. Marcoulides, Jiashan Tang, Ke-Hai Yuan
{"title":"Minimal-Effect Testing, Equivalence Testing, and the Conventional Null Hypothesis Testing for the Analysis of Bi-Factor Models","authors":"Shunji Wang, Katerina M. Marcoulides, Jiashan Tang, Ke-Hai Yuan","doi":"10.1080/10705511.2024.2347592","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10705511.2024.2347592","url":null,"abstract":"A necessary step in applying bi-factor models is to evaluate the need for domain factors with a general factor in place. The conventional null hypothesis testing (NHT) was commonly used for such a ...","PeriodicalId":21964,"journal":{"name":"Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal","volume":"72 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141246312","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Teague R. Henry, Zachary F. Fisher, Kenneth A. Bollen
{"title":"Optimal Instrument Selection Using Bayesian Model Averaging for Model Implied Instrumental Variable Two Stage Least Squares Estimators","authors":"Teague R. Henry, Zachary F. Fisher, Kenneth A. Bollen","doi":"10.1080/10705511.2024.2343926","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10705511.2024.2343926","url":null,"abstract":"Model-Implied Instrumental Variable Two-Stage Least Squares (MIIV-2SLS) is a limited information, equation-by-equation, noniterative estimator for latent variable models. Associated with this estim...","PeriodicalId":21964,"journal":{"name":"Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal","volume":"36 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141309110","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Applying Benford’s Law for Assessing the Validity of Social Science Data","authors":"Ademola B. Ajayi","doi":"10.1080/10705511.2024.2342379","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10705511.2024.2342379","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal (Ahead of Print, 2024)","PeriodicalId":21964,"journal":{"name":"Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141246361","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Can We Differentiate a Latent Growth Curve Model from Competitors? Evidence Based on Individual Case Residuals","authors":"Dan Wei, Peida Zhan, Hongyun Liu","doi":"10.1080/10705511.2024.2350033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10705511.2024.2350033","url":null,"abstract":"In latent growth curve modeling (LGCM), overall fit indices have garnered increased disputation for model selection, and model fit evaluation based on the mean structure has becoming popularity. Th...","PeriodicalId":21964,"journal":{"name":"Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal","volume":"307 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141246275","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Are the Signs of Factor Loadings Arbitrary in Confirmatory Factor Analysis? Problems and Solutions","authors":"Dandan Tang, Steven M. Boker, Xin Tong","doi":"10.1080/10705511.2024.2351102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10705511.2024.2351102","url":null,"abstract":"The replication crisis in social and behavioral sciences has raised concerns about the reliability and validity of empirical studies. While research in the literature has explored contributing fact...","PeriodicalId":21964,"journal":{"name":"Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal","volume":"127 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141246311","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Investigating Structural Model Fit Evaluation","authors":"Xijuan Zhang, Hao Wu","doi":"10.1080/10705511.2024.2350023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10705511.2024.2350023","url":null,"abstract":"A full structural equation model (SEM) typically consists of both a measurement model (describing relationships between latent variables and observed scale items) and a structural model (describing...","PeriodicalId":21964,"journal":{"name":"Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal","volume":"44 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141436027","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Philipp Sterner, Florian Pargent, Dominik Deffner, David Goretzko
{"title":"A Causal Framework for the Comparability of Latent Variables","authors":"Philipp Sterner, Florian Pargent, Dominik Deffner, David Goretzko","doi":"10.1080/10705511.2024.2339396","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10705511.2024.2339396","url":null,"abstract":"Measurement invariance (MI) describes the equivalence of measurement models of a construct across groups or time. When comparing latent means, MI is often stated as a prerequisite of meaningful gro...","PeriodicalId":21964,"journal":{"name":"Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140817906","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Augmented Bifactor Models and Bifactor-(S-1) Models are Identical. A Comment on Zhang, Luo, Zhang, Sun & Zhang (2023)","authors":"Tobias Koch, Michael Eid","doi":"10.1080/10705511.2024.2339387","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10705511.2024.2339387","url":null,"abstract":"In a recent study, Zhang et al. (2023) proposed the augmented oblique bifactor model as a new methodological contribution, in which an oblique bifactor model is augmented by one or more indicator(s...","PeriodicalId":21964,"journal":{"name":"Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140817752","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review of Quantitative Methods for the Social Sciences: A Practical Introduction with Examples in R (2nd ed.)","authors":"Virginia Rosa da Silva","doi":"10.1080/10705511.2024.2322726","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10705511.2024.2322726","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal (Ahead of Print, 2024)","PeriodicalId":21964,"journal":{"name":"Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140603565","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Handling Measurement Error and Omitted Confounders Considering Informativeness of the Confounding Effect under Mediation Modeling","authors":"Qian Zhang, Qi Wang","doi":"10.1080/10705511.2023.2270167","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10705511.2023.2270167","url":null,"abstract":"In the article, we focused on the issues of measurement error and omitted confounders while conducting mediation analysis under experimental studies. Depending on informativeness of the confounders...","PeriodicalId":21964,"journal":{"name":"Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140545139","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}