The use of SEM demonstrates advantages of “measurement and prediction” (Kelloway 1998, p. 2) over standard multiple regression methods. Path dependence is subsumed in our model and, as LISREL analyses correlations and error term covariances to confirm structural models, using SEM “captures a truer representation of the variation of variables” (Eriksson, Majkgard, and Sharma 2000, p. 314).