Modeling latent interactions at level 2 in multilevel structural equation models: An evaluation of mean-centered and residual-centered unconstrained approaches

Structural Equation Modeling

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 449-464

  Leite, Walter L ^a   Zuo, Youzhen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Latent variable interaction; Monte Carlo simulation study; Multilevel SEM; Structural equation modeling; Unconstrained approach

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960679362     PISSN: 10705511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10705511.2011.582400     Document Type: Article

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