Here, I'll be posting my 619 project syntax model by model. Broadly, my 619 project examined the longitudinal and reciprocal relations between coparenting relationship quality and father engagement among low-income residential fathers. I used a cross-lagged model to test the family systems theory which suggests that coparenting and father engagement share in a bidirectional relationship. I used a model building approach to create four models: (1) the stability model; (2) the father engagement unidirectional model; (3) the coparenting unidirectional model; and (4) bidirectional model. I compared these nested models with the Satorra-Bentler LR test and AIC. Results demonstrated a preference for the third model. Thus, the coparenting unidirectional model was chosen as the final model.
I did not include output in my syntax because the actual analyses were conducted in ICPSR's Virtual Data Enclave (VDE), where the restricted data is currently stored. The VDE does not allow users to manually add or extract content outside of its environment. My codes here were re-typed by hand. The output is quite extensive so I could not include them. For those interested in viewing sample outputs, please refer to the lavaan project at http://lavaan.ugent.be