1. What is the advantage of moving from a measured to a latent variable approach? What might happen to the estimates of effects with this transition?   2. Find an article in your area of interest that...

1. What is the advantage of moving from a measured to a latent variable approach? What might happen to the estimates of effects with this transition?

2. Find an article in your area of interest that uses latent variable structural equation modeling (it may be referred to as structural equation modeling or covariance structures analysis). Read the article. Do the authors discuss reasons for using latent over measured variables? Do they link latent variables with the constructs of reliability and validity? How do they label the disturbances? The error and unique variances of the measured variables?