Abstract:
INTRODUCTION Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) as a statistical technique has increased in popularity since it was first conceived by Wright (1918), a biometrician who developed the path analysis method to analyse genetic theory in biology. SEM enjoyed a renaissance in the early 1970s, particularly in sociology and econometrics (Goldberger & Duncan, 1973), and later spread to other disciplines, such as psychology, political science, and education (Kenny, 1979; Werts & Linn, 1970). ...