השוואת שיטות

	ניתוח גורמים מאשר (CFA)	מודל משוואות מבניות (SEM)
תחום	פסיכומטריה	סטטיסטיקה
משפחה	Latent structure	Latent structure
שנת המקור	1969	1970
הוגה השיטה	Karl Gustav Jöreskog	Karl Jöreskog (LISREL framework, 1970s)
סוג	Hypothesis-testing latent variable model	Latent variable / causal modeling
מקור מכונן	Jöreskog, K. G. (1969). A general approach to confirmatory maximum likelihood factor analysis. Psychometrika, 34(2), 183–202.	Hair, J. F., Black, W. C., Babin, B. J. & Anderson, R. E. (2019). Multivariate Data Analysis (8th ed.). Cengage Learning. ISBN: 978-1473756540
כינויים	CFA, confirmatory FA, measurement model, restricted factor analysis	Yapısal Eşitlik Modellemesi (SEM), structural equation modelling, covariance structure analysis, latent variable modeling
קשורות	4	5
תקציר	Confirmatory factor analysis tests a researcher-specified factor structure against observed data. Unlike exploratory approaches, the researcher decides in advance which indicators load on which latent factor, and the model is evaluated by how closely the implied covariance matrix reproduces the sample covariance matrix. CFA is central to scale validation, construct validity assessment, and measurement invariance testing.	Structural equation modeling is a multivariate statistical framework that simultaneously estimates a measurement model — relating observed indicators to latent constructs — and a structural model specifying directional or reciprocal relationships among those constructs. Rooted in the LISREL tradition developed by Karl Jöreskog in the 1970s, SEM is the standard tool for testing complex theoretical models in the social, behavioural, and management sciences.