Vassallo, M.
Exploring boundaries of correct specifications in cognitive causal models: Phantom path analysis may help
Purpose of this article is to introduce a strategy for model assessment, named the alterations, to explore the boundaries of the relationships within cognitive path models of applied psychology and thus test for model stability to specific contexts. In this respect, the alteration was conceptually defined as the cognitive strength that may be admissible to overcome constraint-based causal paths of an underlying theory and was computationally estimated by means of phantom variables’ indirect effects under structural equation modeling technique.
Testing, Psychometrics, Methodology in Applied Psychology, 2020, Vol. 27, pp. 21-42, DOI: 10.4473/TPM27.1.2
