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Exploratory Factor Analysis: A Users’Guide
Author(s) -
Ferguson Eamonn,
Cox Tom
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
international journal of selection and assessment
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.812
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 1468-2389
pISSN - 0965-075X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-2389.1993.tb00092.x
Subject(s) - exploratory factor analysis , psychology , heuristics , applied psychology , set (abstract data type) , test (biology) , factor (programming language) , interpretation (philosophy) , social psychology , data science , psychometrics , computer science , clinical psychology , programming language , paleontology , biology , operating system
In 1978, Comrey wrote a guide to factor analysis in the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology. This paper provides an update of the information given by Comrey in relation to exploratory factor analysis (EFA) for work and organizational psychologists, and particularly those involved with test development, interpretation and validation. In doing so, it offers a user's guide to contemporary methods and available techniques and introduces heuristics for dealing with problems of skew and kurtosis, social desirability response set, and factor naming.