Σύγκριση μεθόδων

	Συγκριτική Επιβεβαιωτική Έρευνα	Έρευνα Ελέγχου Μοντέλων
Πεδίο	Ερευνητικός Σχεδιασμός	Ερευνητικός Σχεδιασμός
Οικογένεια	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Έτος προέλευσης	1971 (Jöreskog); systematized in organizational research by 2000	1970s (Joreskog 1969–1973); widely adopted in social sciences by the 1980s–1990s
Δημιουργός	Karl Jöreskog (multigroup CFA foundation); Robert Vandenberg & Charles Lance (organizational application)	Karl G. Joreskog (SEM/LISREL framework); formalized through structural equation modeling tradition
Τύπος	Quantitative comparative research design	Confirmatory quantitative research design
Θεμελιώδης πηγή	Vandenberg, R. J., & Lance, C. E. (2000). A review and synthesis of the measurement invariance literature: Suggestions, practices, and recommendations for organizational research. Organizational Research Methods, 3(1), 4–70.	Kline, R. B. (2015). Principles and Practice of Structural Equation Modeling (4th ed.). Guilford Press. ISBN: 978-1462523344
Εναλλακτικές ονομασίες	multigroup confirmatory research, cross-group confirmatory study, comparative hypothesis testing design, comparative model testing research	model-based research, structural model testing, theory-testing research, MTR
Συναφείς	4	5
Σύνοψη	Comparative confirmatory research tests whether a pre-specified theoretical model or set of hypotheses holds equivalently across two or more distinct groups, time points, or contexts. It extends standard confirmatory analysis by explicitly imposing and evaluating equality constraints across groups, determining not only whether a model fits the data but whether its structure, factor loadings, and parameter estimates are comparable across populations. This design is foundational to cross-cultural, multi-site, and subgroup comparison studies.	Model testing research is a confirmatory quantitative design in which the researcher specifies a theoretical model — depicting hypothesized relationships among constructs — and then tests how well that model fits empirical data. Drawing primarily on structural equation modeling (SEM) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), it evaluates whether the data-implied covariance structure is consistent with the theoretically derived one, yielding fit indices that indicate model-data correspondence.