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Comments on the objective analysis of motivation and psychotherapy
Author(s) -
Kline Paul
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
british journal of medical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.102
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 2044-8341
pISSN - 0007-1129
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8341.1992.tb01705.x
Subject(s) - psychology , relevance (law) , value (mathematics) , confirmatory factor analysis , psychotherapist , empirical research , epistemology , structural equation modeling , computer science , machine learning , political science , law , philosophy
There are several important issues raised in the paper by Cattell and in the comments upon it: the empirical status of the Cattell factors; the experimental verification of factors; difficulties with confirmatory analysis and the value of P‐analysis. The relevance of these points is explicated in this paper.