Degrees of Freedom in SEM

Structural equation modeling (SEM) has been a staple of the organizational sciences for decades. It is common to report degrees of freedom ( df) for tested models, and it should be possible for a reader to recreate df for any model in a published paper. We reviewed 784 models from 75 papers published in top journals in order to understand df-related reporting practices and discover how often reported df matched those that we computed based on...