Creating CFA syntax from EFA results
The psych package provides the wrapper function structure.sem() to help you easily turn your EFA results into syntax that can be used to conduct a CFA using the sem() function in the sem package. This convenience function can save you a lot of time in writing that syntax, so feel free to use it if you agree with the results of your EFA.
This exercise is part of the course
Factor Analysis in R
Exercise instructions
- First, conduct a five-factor EFA on the EFA half of the
bfidataset. - Then, use the resulting model object as an argument to the
structure.sem()function to set up the syntax.
Hands-on interactive exercise
Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.
# Conduct a five-factor EFA on the EFA half of the dataset
EFA_model <- ___(bfi_EFA, nfactors = ___)
# Use the wrapper function to create syntax for use with the sem() function
EFA_syn <- ___(___)