Structural Equation Modeling

This volume is the second edition of Hancock and Mueller's highly-successful 2006 volume withall of the original chapters updated as well as four new chapters. The second edition like the firstis intended to serve as a didactically-oriented resource for graduate students and research professionalscovering a broad range of advanced topics often not discussed in introductory courses onstructural equation modeling (SEM). Such topics are important in furthering the understanding offoundations and assumptions underlying SEM as well as in exploring SEM as a potential tool to address new types of research questionsthat might not have arisen during a first course. Chapters focus on the clear explanation and application of topics rather than onanalytical derivations and contain materials from popular SEM software.This book represents a significant updating and expansion of Hancock and Mueller's excellent first edition that explores a variety oftopics not typically covered in introductory SEM courses. The second edition is again characterized by the substantial strengths of theoriginal text including a clearly articulated didactic presentation style and a cohesive voice that connects each chapter to the next. Thisrevised edition not only incorporates comprehensive updates to the original material but also includes the addition of a number ofwholly new chapters covering important and contemporary topics including partial least squares estimation conditional process modelingexploratory SEM and Bayesian estimation. Taken together this is an indispensable resource for both beginner and advanced usersof SEM across the social and behavioral sciences; I recommend it highly. -- Patrick J. Curran University of North Carolina at ChapelHill