{"title":"Review of Handbook of Structural Equation Modeling (2nd ed.)","authors":"Jam Khojasteh, Ademola Ajayi","doi":"10.1080/10705511.2023.2257890","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10705511.2023.2257890","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal (Ahead of Print, 2023)","PeriodicalId":21964,"journal":{"name":"Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal","volume":"20 23","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50164683","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":"The Sensitivity of Bayesian Fit Indices to Structural Misspecification in Structural Equation Modeling","authors":"Chunhua Cao, Benjamin Lugu, Jujia Li","doi":"10.1080/10705511.2023.2253497","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10705511.2023.2253497","url":null,"abstract":"This study examined the false positive (FP) rates and sensitivity of Bayesian fit indices to structural misspecification in Bayesian structural equation modeling. The impact of measurement quality,...","PeriodicalId":21964,"journal":{"name":"Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal","volume":"20 22","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50164685","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":"Comparing Methods for Factor Score Estimation in Structural Equation Modeling: The Role of Network Analysis","authors":"Jinying Ouyang, Zhehan Jiang, Christine DiStefano, Junhao Pan, Yuting Han, Lingling Xu, Dexin Shi, Fen Cai","doi":"10.1080/10705511.2023.2253496","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10705511.2023.2253496","url":null,"abstract":"Precisely estimating factor scores is challenging, especially when models are mis-specified. Stemming from network analysis, centrality measures offer an alternative approach to estimating the scor...","PeriodicalId":21964,"journal":{"name":"Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal","volume":"88 21","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71435580","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}
C. J. Van Lissa, M. Garnier-Villarreal, D. Anadria
{"title":"Recommended Practices in Latent Class Analysis Using the Open-Source R-Package tidySEM","authors":"C. J. Van Lissa, M. Garnier-Villarreal, D. Anadria","doi":"10.1080/10705511.2023.2250920","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10705511.2023.2250920","url":null,"abstract":"Latent class analysis (LCA) refers to techniques for identifying groups in data based on a parametric model. Examples include mixture models, LCA with ordinal indicators, and latent class growth analysis. Despite its popularity, there is limited guidance with respect to decisions that must be made when conducting and reporting LCA. Moreover, there is a lack of user-friendly open-source implementations. Based on contemporary academic discourse, this paper introduces recommendations for LCA which are summarized in the SMART-LCA checklist: Standards for More Accuracy in Reporting of different Types of Latent Class Analysis. The free open-source R-package package tidySEM implements the practices recommended here. It is easy for beginners to adopt thanks to user-friendly wrapper functions, and yet remains relevant for expert users as its models are integrated within the OpenMx structural equation modeling framework and remain fully customizable. The Appendices and tidySEM package vignettes include tutorial examples of common applications of LCA.","PeriodicalId":21964,"journal":{"name":"Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135093029","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}
Bo Zhang, Jing Luo, Susu Zhang, Tianjun Sun, Don C. Zhang
{"title":"Improving the Statistical Performance of Oblique Bifactor Measurement and Predictive Models: An Augmentation Approach","authors":"Bo Zhang, Jing Luo, Susu Zhang, Tianjun Sun, Don C. Zhang","doi":"10.1080/10705511.2023.2222229","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10705511.2023.2222229","url":null,"abstract":"Oblique bifactor models, where group factors are allowed to correlate with one another, are commonly used. However, the lack of research on the statistical properties of oblique bifactor models ren...","PeriodicalId":21964,"journal":{"name":"Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal","volume":"20 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50164718","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":"Comparing MIMIC and MIMIC-interaction to Alignment Methods for Investigating Measurement Invariance concerning a Continuous Violator","authors":"Yuanfang Liu, Mark H. C. Lai, Ben Kelcey","doi":"10.1080/10705511.2023.2240517","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10705511.2023.2240517","url":null,"abstract":"Measurement invariance holds when a latent construct is measured in the same way across different levels of background variables (continuous or categorical) while controlling for the true value of ...","PeriodicalId":21964,"journal":{"name":"Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal","volume":"17 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50164989","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":"Performance of Estimation Methods in Bifactor Models with Ordered Categorical Data","authors":"Ismail Cuhadar, Ömür Kaya Kalkan","doi":"10.1080/10705511.2023.2247567","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10705511.2023.2247567","url":null,"abstract":"Simulation studies are needed to investigate how many score categories are sufficient to treat ordered categorical data as continuous, particularly for bifactor models. The current simulation study...","PeriodicalId":21964,"journal":{"name":"Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal","volume":"17 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50164987","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":"Comparing Factor Score Approaches to SEM in Multigroup Models with Small Samples","authors":"Emma Somer, Carl Falk, Milica Miočević","doi":"10.1080/10705511.2023.2243387","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10705511.2023.2243387","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractFactor Score Regression (FSR) is increasingly employed as an alternative to structural equation modeling (SEM) in small samples. Despite its popularity in psychology, the performance of FSR in multigroup models with small samples remains relatively unknown. The goal of this study was to examine the performance of FSR, namely Croon’s correction and the bias avoiding method, for multigroup models with small samples and compare the methods to SEM. We conducted two simulation studies to evaluate how the sample size, proportion of invariant items, reliability, number of indicators, and measurement model misspecifications affect conclusions about the structural relationships in multigroup models. Additionally, we extended the methods to a multigroup actor-partner interdependence model. Results suggest that Croon’s correction generally outperforms conventional SEM and the bias avoiding method in terms of bias, efficiency, Type I error, and coverage, especially in more complex multigroup models and under difficult estimation conditions.Keywords: Croon’s correctionfactor score regressionmultigroup modelssmall samplesstructural equation modeling Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.Notes1 https://osf.io/fcujz/.2 When a different identification strategy was used in Study 1, factor reflection was detected less than 1% of the time. Factor reflection was identified by evaluating whether the average value of the loadings for the exogenous and endogenous variable items was of opposite signs. In these cases, the sign of the structural path estimate was flipped, and bias and coverage were recomputed. We provide supplemental files with the results from our factor reflection analysis. The pattern of results was consistent with those presented in the main text.","PeriodicalId":21964,"journal":{"name":"Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134885618","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}
Yuejin Zhou, Wenwu Wang, Tao Hu, Tiejun Tong, Zhonghua Liu
{"title":"Causal Mediation Analysis for an Ordinal Outcome with Multiple Mediators","authors":"Yuejin Zhou, Wenwu Wang, Tao Hu, Tiejun Tong, Zhonghua Liu","doi":"10.1080/10705511.2022.2148674","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10705511.2022.2148674","url":null,"abstract":"<p><b>Abstract</b></p><p>Causal mediation analysis is a popular approach for investigating whether the effect of an exposure on an outcome is through a mediator to better understand the underlying causal mechanism. In recent literature, mediation analysis with multiple mediators has been proposed for continuous and dichotomous outcomes. In contrast, methods for mediation analysis for an ordinal outcome are still underdeveloped. In this paper, we first review mediation analysis methods with a continuous mediator for an ordinal outcome and then develop mediation analysis with a binary mediator for an ordinal outcome. We further consider multiple mediators for an ordinal outcome in the counterfactual framework and provide identification assumptions for identifying the mediation effects. Under the identification assumptions, we propose a regression-based method to estimate the mediation effects through multiple mediators while allowing the presence of exposure-mediator interactions. The closed-form expressions of mediation effects are also obtained for three scenarios: multiple continuous mediators, multiple binary mediators, and multiple mixed mediators. We conduct simulation studies to assess the finite sample performance of our new methods and present the biases, standard errors, and confidence intervals to demonstrate that our proposed estimators perform well in a wide range of practical settings. Finally, we apply our proposed methods to assess the mediation effects of candidate DNA methylation CpG sites in the causal pathway from socioeconomic index to body mass index.</p>","PeriodicalId":21964,"journal":{"name":"Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal","volume":"13 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50164780","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}