I was raised on Otis Dudley Duncan's 1975 book Introduction to Structural Equation Models. There are many other sources now but it had a huge influence at the time. I especially like how it decomposes the different possible sources of correlation between two variables.
https://books.google.com/books?hl=en...models&f=false
https://books.google.com/books?hl=en...models&f=false
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