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  • Quantitative Psychology
  • Survey Methodology

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  • Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) is commonly used for multi-item scales.
  • Standard CFA restricts cross-loadings and residual correlations, often causing model misfit.
  • Existing solutions for misfit have theoretical and measurement scale limitations.

Purpose of the Study:

  • Introduce autoregressive confirmatory factor analysis (AR-CFA) as a theoretically grounded alternative.
  • Address limitations of standard CFA in modeling sequential survey response processes.
  • Explore AR-CFA's utility in capturing temporal dependencies among scale items.

Main Methods:

  • Compared AR-CFA to traditional approaches using a large dataset (N=8,569).
  • Utilized data from five common personality factors.
  • Developed methods for testing AR-CFA hypotheses, including latent interactions and time-varying residuals.

Main Results:

  • AR-CFA demonstrated improved model fit compared to conventional methods.
  • AR-CFA provided evidence of enhanced construct validity.
  • The approach effectively models temporal dependencies in survey responses.

Conclusions:

  • AR-CFA offers a theoretically robust method for analyzing multi-item scale data.
  • AR-CFA can be a valuable complement to existing psychometric modeling techniques.
  • The study recommends considering AR-CFA for its ability to capture sequential response processes.