Confirmatory Factor Analysis

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The hypothesis of this study is that is a correlation between the latent factors of posttraumatic stress disorder with the constructs of anxiety and depression in order to increase the understanding of co-occurrence of these disorders. Throughout the article, it discusses how PTSD has a high correlation between anxiety and depressive disorders (Byllesby, Durham, Forbes, Armour, & Elhai, 2015). Using the PTSD checklist and Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale, they collected data from 186 patients that have been exposed to trauma. Scales such as the Confirmatory factor analysis and Wald tests were used as. These scales, tests, and analysis were used to compare the relationship and correlation between anxiety, depression and PTSD factors. After