Introduction
This chapter discusses the major uses of confirmatory factor analysis including measurement development, psychometric evaluation of measures, construct validation, testing method effects, and testing measurement invariance, and presents examples of these uses in the social work literature. Different types of validity are briefly defined and discussed. Confirmatory factor analysis is compared with three other common data analysis approaches: exploratory factor analysis, principal components analysis, and structural equation modeling. Software for conducting confirmatory factor analysis is briefly discussed.
Keywords: validity, measurement development, method effects, measurement invariance, exploratory factor analysis, principal components analysis, structural equation modelling, software
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