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CHAPTER 24 ELEMENTS OF STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING Confirmatory factory analysis (CFA) deals with validation of constructs (latent variables, fac- tors) and their measurement through hypothesized relations between the constructs and observa- ble variables (indicators). Thus, CFA validates measurement relations between latent variables and observable indicators. The main question of interest in most research situations, however, is to hypothesize causal relations among latent variables based on previous theoretical and/or em- pirical studies and to test such relation