Exploratory structural equation modeling: An integration of the best features of exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis

Annual Review of Clinical Psychology

Volumn 10, Issue , 2014, Pages 85-110

  Marsh, Herbert W ^a,b,c   Morin, Alexandre J S ^a   Parker, Philip D ^a   Kaur, Gurvinder ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis; Exploratory structural equation model within confirmatory factor analysis; Exploratory structural equation models; Multiple indicator multiple cause (MIMIC) models; Multitrait multimethod models

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN LEARNING; BAYESIAN STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODEL; BULLYING; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONFIRMATORY FACTOR ANALYSIS; CONTENT ANALYSIS; CONVERGENT VALIDITY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISCRIMINANT VALIDITY; FACTOR SCORE; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN; LATENT CORRELATION MATRICE; MANIFEST SCORE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL PARAMETERS; MULTITRAIT MULTIMETHOD; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; PATH ANALYSIS; PERSONALITY; PLAUSIBLE VALUE; PREDICTION; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; SOCIOLOGY; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; STUDENT; VICTIM;

FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PSYCHOMETRICS;

EID: 84897371306     PISSN: 15485943     EISSN: 15485951     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-clinpsy-032813-153700     Document Type: Review

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