LITERATURE REVIEW FOR UNDERSTANDING THE APPLICATION OF STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING

• Main Authors: Ni-Yen Kuan, 官呢燕
• Other Authors: Huei-HuangChen
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/49258256740389898883

碩士 === 大同大學 === 資訊經營學系(所) === 101 === Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) is the most common statistical technique in academic research at present. In psychology, management and human social sciences, SEM is used for validating the research. Thus, in many well-known international journals, validation by SEM is a key point in the article review process. However, many scholars have realized that although the current SEM technique is based on complete theories and is widely adopted, an increasing number of researchers have misused or proposed wrong explanation in model manipulation and SEM analytical result. This study intends to propose a complete SEM process after a comprehensive literature review, thus allowing future researchers to use SEM more effectively. Besides proving a great number of literatures related to SEM, this paper also reorganizes excellent management journals related to SEM in SCI, SSCI and TSSCI. It is found that the SEM has been used extensively and is advantageous in different fields. It is the theoretical base for this study to reorganize cases of SEM. In addition, this study applies SEM on the studies in SSCI, and uses a great number of related literatures to explain the SEM analytical methods, thus providing a simple process of using SEM for the reference of future researchers. Finally, since this study focuses on SEM and the research scope is in Taiwan, time of some literature (the journal Impact Factor) is 2009-2011. If necessary, futures researchers can search for the updated information.