استخدام النمذجة بالمعادلة البنائية في العلوم الاجتماعية

Abstract EN

This research aims at introducing one of the modern methodological approaches that are being used in the field of social sciences in the West, especially after the development and outspread of software applications.

An example of such software is what is known as “The Master of Statistics )Amos(”.

The first contribution of this research is that it defines modeling as a powerful, flexible and comprehensive technique that reveals and simulates the behavior of variables in the context of a synchronous system that achieves close resemblance to reality.

This technique is based on building a model that is applied by the researcher on reality )the study DATA( to make total correspondence between them.

The second contribution consists in providing the interested people with theoretical and methodological knowledge to use modeling, its objectives, processes and replicas, and to achieve this goal, the study has used examples to consolidate its findings.

The third contribution consists in explaining how to read modeling outputs, their statistical language, their indicators, the way replication is achieved, and the evidence of structural authenticity in the process.

Finally, the research presents the basic procedural steps of modeling and concludes by presenting some methods of testing the intermediate variables in social research.