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As opposed to being a paradigm for establishing theories, confirmatory factor analysis tests theories. Before to the analysis, a hypothesis must be established for confirmatory factor analysis. Which variables are associated to which factors and which factors are related to each other are determined by this hypothesis and, by extension, by the model (Stapleton, 1997). Figure 4 presents the confirmatory factor analysis model consisting of two factors. The confirmatory factor analysis model given in Figure 4 aims to confirm the hypothesis that the Mindfulness in Parenting Questionnaire (Aslan Gördesli et al., 2018; McCaffrey et al., 2017) consists of two sub-scale, namely “Parental Self Efficacy” and “Being in the Moment with the Child”.
The figure shows the relationships between the “Parental Self-Efficacy” and “Being in the Moment with the Child” sub-scales and the scale items that constitute these sub-scales. In this model, two sub-scales were shown to be correlated with each other.
