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I recommend that you use 1dSVAR instead of 1dSEM:

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> My output yielded path coefficients within the -8 and 8 range. Maybe I ran something wrong
> because most of the papers I've seen report within the -1 1 range.

The path coefficient can be any value. For its interpretation, see page 1151 in the following paper:

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Gang