A factor analysis of the important people inventory
Author(s) -
Domenic Groh,
Bardley D. Olson,
Leonard A. Jason,
Michaël I. Davis,
Joseph R Ferrari
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
alcohol and alcoholism
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.747
H-Index - 99
eISSN - 1464-3502
pISSN - 0735-0414
DOI - 10.1093/alcalc/agm012
Subject(s) - varimax rotation , psychology , variance (accounting) , principal component analysis , factor analysis , scale (ratio) , psychometrics , clinical psychology , statistics , cronbach's alpha , mathematics , physics , accounting , quantum mechanics , business
For well over a decade, the Important People Inventory (IP, Clifford and Longabaugh, 1991; Clifford et al., 1992) has been used to collect a wide range of valuable information regarding network support for alcohol use. However, because of psychometric limitations and varied adaptations of the IP, the following study performed factor analyses to develop a more structurally consistent model of the scaleas compared to the existing model.
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