Friday 17th October 2025

Target Audience

Students will gain most if they already tried regression and exploratory factor analysis once or twice before. They should already be familiar with SPSS.

The course tutor, Charles Dennis, is Professor of Consumer Behaviour at The Business School, University of Newcastle (UK) and a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the International Journal of Consumer Studies. His main teaching and research area is (e-)retail and consumer behaviour. He has taught courses, given presentations and written papers based on his research using SPSS AMOS.

A booking form is at https://assess-spss.co.uk/workshop-form/

Pre-requisites 

This workshop is suitable for users who have no prior experience using SPSS.

Aim

This workshop introduces basic concepts and structures in fitting factor analysis models using SPSS AMOS. The course will enable you to use AMOS for confirmatory factor analysis to address research questions of interest. You will learn how to interpret the output, and how to modify models when appropriate.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of the course, you will be able to:

• Why and when to use confirmatory factor analysis
• To contrast confirmatory with exploratory factor analysis
• Introduction to SPSS AMOS
• Model specification, model fit and model modification
• Mediation analysis
• Path analysis
• To examine SPSS AMOS output
• Interpreting and reporting SPSS AMOS output
• Comparing factor structures between groups