Call for papers 2026 Meeting of the SEM Working Group in Warsaw

Call for papers 2026 Meeting of the SEM Working Group in Warsaw

The next meeting of the SEM Working Group will take place from 15 to 17 April 2026 at the Educational Research Institute (IBE) and the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IFiS PAN) in Warsaw, Poland. The meeting is organized by Prof. Artur Pokropek and the local organizing team from both IBE and IFiS PAN.

Keynote addresses will be given by Prof. Yves Rosseel (University of Ghent) and Prof. Jörg Henseler (University of Twente and Universidade Nova de Lisboa).

Prof. Yves Rosseel (University of Ghent), author of the lavaan package for SEM in R, will be giving a pre-conference workshop on 15 April 2026. Both speakers and passive participants are invited to take part in the workshop.

We invite all participants to propose and present oral papers. Each delegate can present only one oral paper, but they can be co-authors on multiple submissions. The presentations are scheduled for 16-17 April 2026.

To submit your abstract, please fill in the following form.

The deadline for submissions expires on December 1. The decision on the acceptance of your abstracts will be communicated on December 8.
There is no conference fee. Participation is free for active and passive participants.

The applications can include, but by no means are not limited to, the following topics and
areas:
● SEM and Causality,
● Missing Data and Multiple Imputation,
● Longitudinal Measurement and Continuous Time Modeling,
● Modelling Longitudinal Data with IRT-Models or Bayesian Structural Equation Models,
● State-Trait Modeling,
● Moderation Effects in Latent Variables,
● Integration of Machine Learning Techniques with Latent Variable Modeling,
● Multilevel SEM,
● SEM and Mixture Models,
● SEM in Modelling Response Processes (response styles, careless responding, rapid guessing, etc.),
● Advances in SEM Software,
● Open Science and SEM (reproducibility, transparent reporting, etc.),
● Visualizations and Communication of SEM Results,
● Teaching SEM, etc.

Organizing Committee:
Prof. Artur Pokropek (IFiS/IBE)
Marta Babecka (IBE)
dr Maria Flakus (IFiS)
dr Marek Muszyński (IFiS)
dr Tomasz Żółtak (IFiS)

Scientific Committee:
Prof. Peter Schmidt (Justus Liebig University Giessen)
Prof. Artur Pokropek (IBE/IFiS)
Prof. Jochen Mayerl (Chemnitz University of Technology)
dr Henrik Andersen (Chemnitz University of Technology)
dr Tomasz Żółtak (IFiS)

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