Assessing Goodness of Fit in Confirmatory Factor Analysis

The author identifies 3 main purposes of conducting confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). and their different requirements on goodness-of-fit assessment. For a better understanding of fit indices, he proposes a hierarchical classification scheme based on J. S. Tanaka’s (1993) multifaceted conceptions and discusses how to assess goodness of fit for different purposes in CFA.