1. Find a research article in an area of interest to you that tested for interactions between latent variables in the analysis or tested for a curvilinear effect for a latent variable. What method did...

1. Find a research article in an area of interest to you that tested for interactions between latent variables in the analysis or tested for a curvilinear effect for a latent variable. What method did the authors use to create the interaction/product term? Did they use some of the same jargon used here? Was the interaction/curve statistically significant? How did the authors describe the results? Did they graph the interaction or curve? How did they do so? Are you able to understand the findings using the information from this chapter? What aspects of the reported findings are still puzzling to you?

 2. Find a research article in an area of interest to you that used multilevel SEM. Did the esearch focus on measured variables (a path analysis) or on latent variables (a latent variable structural equation model)? What program was used to conduct the MLM? What were levels of analysis? Which variables were analyzed at each level? What models were tested? Were they similar to the models tested here? Were you able to interpret the results of the MLSEM using the suggestions in this chapter? What aspects of the reported findings are still puzzling to you?