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Prokofieva, Maria, Zarate, Daniel, Parker, Alexander S., Palikara, Olympia and Stavropoulos, Vasileios (2023) Exploratory structural equation modeling: a streamlined step by step approach using the R Project software. BMC Psychiatry, 23 (1). 546. doi:10.1186/s12888-023-05028-9 ISSN 1471-244X.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-023-05028-9
Abstract
Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) has been a popular yet limited approach to assessing latent factor structures. Despite items rarely loading exclusively on one latent factor in multifactorial scales, CFA assumes all indicators/items should load uniquely on their allocated latent dimensions. To address this weakness, Exploratory Structural Equation Modeling (ESEM) combines exploratory factor analyses (EFA) and CFA procedures, allowing cross-loadings to occur when assessing hypothesized models. Although such advantages have enhanced ESEM popularity, its adoption is often limited by software rigidity and complex coding difficulties. To address these obstacles, the current tutorial presents a streamlined, step-by-step approach using the open-source software R while providing both R and Mplus ESEM syntax. The tutorial demonstrates the sequence of the ESEM stages by examining the frequently debated Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) factor structure, using openly accessible data from the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (LSAC). As ESEM may allow a better understanding of the complex associations in multidimensional scales, this tutorial may optimize the epidemiological and clinical assessment of common yet multifaceted psychiatric presentations.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) H Social Sciences > HM Sociology H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare Q Science > QA Mathematics |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > English and Comparative Literary Studies | ||||||
SWORD Depositor: | Library Publications Router | ||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Human behavior, Evaluation research (Social action programs), Evidence-based social work, Structural equation modeling -- Data processing, Human behavior -- Mathematical models | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | BMC Psychiatry | ||||||
Publisher: | BioMed Central | ||||||
ISSN: | 1471-244X | ||||||
Official Date: | 28 July 2023 | ||||||
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Volume: | 23 | ||||||
Number: | 1 | ||||||
Article Number: | 546 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1186/s12888-023-05028-9 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 16 August 2023 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 16 August 2023 | ||||||
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