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THE ROLE OF CONFIRMATORY FACTOR ANALYSIS IN CROSS‐CULTURAL RESEARCH *
Author(s) -
Watkins David
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
international journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.75
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1464-066X
pISSN - 0020-7594
DOI - 10.1080/00207598908247839
Subject(s) - confirmatory factor analysis , psychology , exploratory factor analysis , cross cultural , factor (programming language) , social psychology , psychometrics , structural equation modeling , sociology , developmental psychology , statistics , computer science , anthropology , mathematics , programming language
Some of the problems with traditional exploratory factor analysis and the advantages of confirmatory factor analyses are first explored. These are illustrated by brief descriptions of how the author has used confirmatory factory analysis in three cross‐cultural investigations. Further discussion looks at possible applications for cross‐cultural researchers and considers some of the current problems with this research technique.