Confirmatory Factor Analysis with SPSS Amos

Name: Confirmatory Factor Analysis with SPSS Amos
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How to Obtain Reliable and Valid Measures from Scales and Questionnaires

Created byLuís Cunha, PhD

Last updated 6/2022

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What you'll learn

Confirmatory Factor Analysis
Path Analysis
Amos
Mediation Analysis
Structural Equation Models
SEM

Course content

7 sections • 27 lectures • 2h 39m total length

CFA - Part 01 Beyond Path Analysis4:02
What Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) is, and what it adds to traditional statistical models, based on variables that are assumed to be measured without error.
CFA - Part 02 Measurment Model for a Construct3:36
How CFA makes our constructs free of measurement error
CFA - Part 03 - Relations between PA, CFA and SEM3:24
Explanation of CFA in the context of the family of Structural Equation Models.
CFA - Part 04 Measures of Construct Validity5:40
How to assess convergent and discriminant validities, as well as "composite reliability" (CR), AVE, and more.

CFA Exercise 01 - Step 17:18
Step by step solution to exercise 01 - please check "Resources" for supporting files (including data and solutions).
CFA Exercise 01 - Step 23:27
Step by step solution to exercise 01 - please check "Resources" for supporting files (including data and solutions).
CFA Exercise 01 - Step 36:38
Step by step solution to exercise 01 - please check "Resources" for supporting files (including data and solutions).

CFA Exercise 03 - Step 13:54
Step by step solution to exercise 03 - please check "Resources" for supporting files (including data and solutions).
CFA Exercise 03 - Step 24:43
Step by step solution to exercise 02 - please check "Resources" for supporting files (including data and solutions).
CFA Exercise 03 - Step 314:22
Step by step solution to exercise 02 - please check "Resources" for supporting files (including data and solutions).
CFA Exercise 03 - Step 44:49
Step by step solution to exercise 02 - please check "Resources" for supporting files (including data and solutions).
CFA Exercise 03 - Step 54:04
Step by step solution to exercise 02 - please check "Resources" for supporting files (including data and solutions).
CFA Exercise 03 - Step 68:05
Step by step solution to exercise 02 - please check "Resources" for supporting files (including data and solutions).
CFA Exercise 03 - Step 711:12
Step by step solution to exercise 02 - please check "Resources" for supporting files (including data and solutions).

PA Part 01 - A Path Analysis Model4:00
Explore theory of planned behavior via a five-construct path analysis, where attitude and subjective norm influence intention, which directly predicts behavior, with perceived behavioral control acting through intention, using Amos.
PA Part 02 - About Model Fit4:20
Principles behind path analysis that can help you understand confirmatory factor analysis.
Path analysis is the most basic type of analysis that Amos allows.
If you are not familiar with this technique, this videos can help you.
If you want to learn more about path analysis with Amos, please check my other courses: Path Analysis and Mediation with Amos and IBM Amos - Complete Course (here on Udemy).
PA Part 03 - Testing the Hypothesis3:45
Principles behind path analysis that can help you understand confirmatory factor analysis.
Path analysis is the most basic type of analysis that Amos allows.
If you are not familiar with this technique, this videos can help you.
If you want to learn more about path analysis with Amos, please check my other courses: Path Analysis and Mediation with Amos and IBM Amos - Complete Course (here on Udemy).
PA Part 04 - Comparing with Basic SPSS2:58
Principles behind path analysis that can help you understand confirmatory factor analysis.
Path analysis is the most basic type of analysis that Amos allows.
If you are not familiar with this technique, this videos can help you.
If you want to learn more about path analysis with Amos, please check my other courses: Path Analysis and Mediation with Amos and IBM Amos - Complete Course (here on Udemy).

Mediation - Part 14:10
In this new section, mediation effects are debated, and some exercises are proposed. I would like to manifest my gratitude for the comments and suggestions provided by those enrolled in the course: I am here for you!
Mediation - Part 24:41
Explore mediation in theory of planned behavior by testing direct effects between perceived behavioural control and behavior, reintroducing intention as mediator, and distinguishing partial versus full mediation through indirect effects.
Mediation - Exercises 18:40
Mediation - Exercises 27:59
Test direct and indirect effects between trust in the agent and long-term commitment using SPSS Amos, comparing models with and without a mediator and evaluating bootstrap results for mediation.

Lecture 24: Full SEM4:23
A "full structural equation model" or "full-SEM" is just path analysis, but using latent variables, instead of simple directly observed variables. Now that we know what a latent variable is (from confirmatory factor analysis), and that we understand what path analysis is all about, we are a small step to get a complete grasp of this family of methods.
The course in which you enrolled is called "Confirmatory Factor Analysis" ("CFA" for short). But CFA is just one of the three members of the SEM family. The other two members are "Path Analysis" and "Full-SEM" models.
With these new materials, your introduction to the whole family of methods that Amos allows you to do is complete.
Once again, I want to say thank you for the precious comments of enrolled students that motivated me to enhance the course.
I am here trying to provide you with the best service I can: that is my goal and aspiration.
Kind regards for you all.
Luís
Full SEM - Exercise Step 04:16
Analyze a full structural equation modelling exercise in SPSS Amos, starting with a simple path analysis and examining reliability of items in a saturated model with zero degrees of freedom.
Full SEM - Exercise Step 16:34
Transform simple constructs into latent constructs with full SEM and CFA, address measurement error, and use bootstrap, fit indices, and modification indices to improve model fit.
Full SEM Exercise - Step 212:03
Transform the confirmatory factor analysis into a full structural equation model by replacing correlations with regression weights among latent variables, highlighting trust in the company predicting long-term commitment.

Requirements

There are no prerequisites for this course.
You should have a valid Amos license (or download the trial version, available from IBM for a 30-day time limit)

Description

In this course you will learn how to develop valid and reliable instruments to collect data.

You will learn how to measure item reliability in the context of confirmatory factor analysis.

You will be able to assess the validity of your constructs (by measuring convergent and discriminant validities).

The course contains very detailed exercises, that are solved step by step, so that you can understand how to apply each step to your own models.

Who this course is for:

Researchers and students from all areas of study for which statistics and assessment instruments play an important role.

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Course content

Confirmatory Factor Analysis4 lectures • 17min

Exercise 1 on CFA3 lectures • 17min

Exercise 2 on CFA1 lecture • 6min

Exercise 3 on CFA7 lectures • 51min

Supplementary Materials: Path Analysis4 lectures • 15min

Section 6: Supplementary Materials: Mediation Analysis4 lectures • 26min

Section 7: Full SEM Models4 lectures • 27min

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