The author provides social work researchers with an essential roadmap to the highlights of confirmatory factory analysis (CFA)'s powers & how to harness them. The text includes an easy-to-follow overview of the method, step-by-step guides to creating a CFA model & assessing its fit, & explanations of the requirements for using CFA.

Introduction -- Creating a confirmatory factor analysis model -- Requirements for conducting confirmatory factor analysis : data considerations -- Assessing confirmatory factor analysis model fit and model revision -- Use of confirmatory factor analysis with multiple groups -- Other issues.