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Confirmatory factor analysis of the Level of Expressed Emotion (LEE) scale
Author(s) -
Startup Mike
Publication year - 1999
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 - 10.1348/000711299160004
Subject(s) - confirmatory factor analysis , psychology , scale (ratio) , principal component analysis , psychometrics , congruence (geometry) , structural equation modeling , social psychology , clinical psychology , statistics , mathematics , physics , quantum mechanics
A confirmatory analysis of a previously reported structure for the Level of Expressed Emotion (LEE) scale was conducted with data from 75 volunteers. Three principal components were extracted and rotated to maximum congruence with a target based on previous research. The fit was found to be highly significant and retest correlations for the subscales of the LEE were good. However, the revised LEE scale could probably be improve, especially by the addition of a subscale designed to measure perceived criticism.