2026 Meeting SEM Working Group: Call for Papers

[Henrik Andersen]

Hi everyone, 

I would like to draw your attention to the call for papers (see below) for the 2026 meeting of the Working Group on Structural Equation Modeling, which will be held from 15-17 April 2026 in Warsaw. 

For those unfamiliar, the Working Group on SEM meets annually, usually in March, April, or May, to share and discuss both methodological and applied work related to SEM. There is a core group of participants (including some of the founding members from 1986) who attend each year, but anyone interested in SEM is warmly invited to submit an abstract and participate. To stay informed about this and future meetings, you can sign up for the newsletter here: https://lists.tu-chemnitz.de/mailman3/postorius/lists/sem-working-group.lists.tu-chemnitz.de/. 

The conference language is English. 

Speaking for myself, the contributions are always of such high quality that the meeting is consistently a highlight of my conference year. I always return home with a head full of new ideas and new acquaintances to fellow SEM enthusiasts. 

Hope to see you there. Kind regards, 

Henrik 

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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: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1F81NbrF1gifQ6DQqJVeepfiJhp_QaSpHfcpiEtKbMsQ/viewform?edit_requested=true. 

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)