ESEM code generator for Mplus: A convenient tool for ESEM, Bi-factor ESEM, ESEM within CFA, and Hierarchical ESEM code generation in Mplus.

The purpose of the De Beer and Van Zyl (2019) ESEM tool is to aid researchers to generate the Mplus syntaxes needed to run several complex ESEM models. Estimating ESEM models within Mplus is rather complex and could become rather tedious. The tool was developed to intuitively guide researchers to generate the Mplus syntaxes needed to estimate normal ESEM-, bifactor ESEM-, Hierarchical ESEM (H-ESEM) and ESEM-within-CFA models. This tool is based on the ESEM estimation procedure discussed in Asparouhov and Muthén (2009) and demonstrated by Howard et al. (2018) for bifactor ESEM and Morin and Asparouhov (2018) for H-ESEM and ESEM-within-CFA models.

The Tool:
De Beer, L.T. & Van Zyl, L.E. (2019). ESEM code generator for Mplus. Retrieved from http://www.surveyhost.co.za/esem/ doi: 10.6084/m9.figshare.8320250

The Video Tutorial (the use of the Tool starts at 1:03:43):
Van Zyl, L.E. & de Beer, L.T. (2021). Exploratory Structural Equation Modelling: Practical guidelines and Video Tutorial for Mplus [YouTube Tutorial]. Retrieved from https://youtu.be/yK_myOYNi-o

The Paper:
Van Zyl, L.E., & Ten Klooster, P.M. (2022). Exploratory Structural Equation Modelling: Practical Guidelines and Tutorial with a Convenient Online Tool for Mplus. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 12:795672. doi:10.3389/fpsyt.2021.795672