ABSTRACT

In this chapter we attempt to show how a number of the relationships examined separately in previous chapters can fit together. “Putting the pieces together” is a bit of an overstatement, however; a more appropriate title for this chapter would be “Putting some of the pieces together.” We begin this chapter by spelling out which of the pieces we put together, why we chose these particular ones, and what rationale we offer for the particular causal ordering we selected for our structural equation models.