ABSTRACT
With this text, we aimed to introduce readers to the basics of the increasingly popular in the educational, medical, social, and behavioral sciences structural equation modeling (SEM) methodology. We discussed a number of issues that in our view are of special relevance for a newcomer to this field or someone having limited experience with this analytic approach. Our view is that while the SEM methodology can nowadays be readily and quickly applied on one’s data, at times with minimal effort, there are nonetheless a multitude of fundamentals of this method whose understanding and mastery will greatly help its user benefit much more significantly from it.
