A Beginner's Guide to Structural Equation Modeling

Schumacker, Randall E.; Lomax, Richard G.

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“…A lower Chi Square value indicates a better fit, however, the X 2 value in this study was 198 with 73 degrees of freedom and was significant .001. For models with more than 200 cases (in our case 550), the chi square is almost always statistically significant (Schumacker & Lomax, 1996). For these reasons A Measure of Metacognitive Beliefs in Health Anxiety 9 9 alternative fit indices were used to assess model fit.…”

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Development and initial validation of a measure of metacognitive beliefs in health anxiety: The MCQ-HA

Bailey

Wells

2015

Psychiatry Research

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Development and initial validation of a measure of metacognitive beliefs in health anxiety: The MCQ-HA

Bailey

Wells

2015

Psychiatry Research

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“…In all the analyses, standard errors of parameters were estimated according to the method of maximum likelihood. To evaluate the global adjustment quality of the model we considered the CFI (Comparative Fit-Index) and GFI (Goodness-of-Fit Index) above.90, the w 2 /degrees of freedom ratio around 2, and the RMSEA (Root Mean Square Error of Approximation) below .05 as indicating a good fit of the model to the data (e.g., Schumacker and Lomax, 1996).…”

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Inpatients’ and outpatients’ satisfaction: The mediating role of perceived quality of physical and social environment

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a b s t r a c tThis study analyses the processes through which the physical environment of health care settings impacts on patients' well-being. Specifically, we investigate the mediating role of perceptions of the physical and social environments, and if this process is moderated by patients' status, that is, if the objective physical environment impacts inpatients' and outpatients' satisfaction by different socialpsychological processes. Patients (N ¼ 206) evaluated the physical and social environments of the care unit where they were receiving treatment, and its objective physical conditions were independently evaluated by two architects. Results showed that the objective environmental quality affects satisfaction through perceptions of environmental quality, and that patients' status moderates this relationship. For inpatients, it is the perception of quality of the social environment that mediates the relationship between objective environmental quality and satisfaction, whereas for outpatients it is the perception of quality of the physical environment. This moderated mediation is discussed in terms of differences on patients' experiences of health care environments.

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“…Possible non-linearity suggested by Figures 1 and 2 was explored by comparing the fit of linear and quadratic structural models. Both models added age as a predictor of both factors in the model, while the quadratic model also included the squared age variable (Schumacker & Lomax, 2010). In the absence of any established guidelines for assessing meaningful change in a structural model, the chi-square difference test was used along with R 2 change to indicate the size of any quadratic effect.…”

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“…To examine whether the association of age with happiness was moderated by GDP, the fit of two models was compared: (a) where regression paths of age were free to vary across GDP groups, and (b) where regression paths were constrained to equality across GDP groups for each factor (Schumacker & Lomax, 2010).…”

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Happiness and age in European adults: The moderating role of gross domestic product per capita.

Morgan¹,

Robinson²,

Thompson³

2015

Psychology and Aging

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Studies of happiness levels across the lifespan have found support for two rival hypotheses.The positivity effect states that as people get older they increasingly attend to positive information, which implies that happiness remains stable or increases with age, whereas the u-shaped hypothesis posits a curvilinear shape resulting from a dip during midlife. Both have been presented as potentially universal hypotheses that relate to cognitive and/or biological causes. The current study examined the happiness-age relationship across 29 European nations (N= 46,301), to explore whether it is moderated by national wealth, as indexed by GDP-per-capita (GDPPC). It was found that eudaimonic and hedonic happiness remained relatively stable across the lifespan only in the most affluent nations; in poorer nations there was either a fluctuating or steady age-associated decline. These findings challenge the cultural universality of the happiness-age relationship and suggest that models of how age relates to happiness should include the socio-economic level of analysis.

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A Beginner's Guide to Structural Equation Modeling

Cited by 969 publications

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Development and initial validation of a measure of metacognitive beliefs in health anxiety: The MCQ-HA

Development and initial validation of a measure of metacognitive beliefs in health anxiety: The MCQ-HA

Inpatients’ and outpatients’ satisfaction: The mediating role of perceived quality of physical and social environment

Happiness and age in European adults: The moderating role of gross domestic product per capita.

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