Teachers' behavior ratings of normal and maladjusted children were factor analyzed to see if the dimensions of child behavior disturbance were invariant across samples. Results indicated that although there were some strong similarities across samples, there was also some uniqueness. (JKS)

Data from use of Rutter's Children's Behavior Questionnaire in a developing country suggest that the scale's factor structure is stable over sex and racial groups. (MP)

Examines the structure of the Philadelphia Geriatric Center (PGC) Morale Scale using a multiple indicator structural equation model. Based on the 1968 National Senior Citizens Survey, the model is consistently replicated across four subsamples. The claim that the PGC Morale Scale is multidimensional is only appropriate for first-order factors.…

A factor analysis was performed on data from the University Residence Environmental Scales (URES). Although 10 meaningful factors were derived, only 50 of the original items were retained as marker items. Only 36 percent of the variance was accounted for by the 10 factors. (Author/BW)

The Piagetian developmental stage of concrete operational thought and the theoretical groupement structures underlying children's performance of 12 concrete operations tasks are discussed. Tasks were shown to develop in five related sets. Three factor structures were found in this longitudinal study. (Author/CM)

For a sample of student clients who judged the effectiveness of their counselors in a university counseling and testing center on a modified form of the Evaluation of Counselors Scale (EOC), a factor analysis of the intercorrelations of student responses to 19 items provided four orthogonal dimensions. (Author/GK)

Reliability, factorial complexity, and predictive validity of the Test of Syntactic Abilities Screening Test were determined from the responses of mildly hearing impaired, severely hearing impaired, and profoundly deaf students. Results showed that the test was unifactorial. Use of the total score to discriminate among students is justified.…

Identified criterion variables known to be related to educational-vocational indecision. Determined if unique relationships existed between factor structure on the Career Decision Scale (CDS) adapted for graduate students and the criterion variables. Results suggested that factor scores of the CDS measure essentially equivalent components of…

The "factor" analyses published by Schultz, Kaye, and Hoyer (1980) confused component and factor analysis and led to unwarranted conclusions. The principal factors method yields two factors which support the a priori expectation of a difference between intelligence tasks and spontaneous flexibility tasks. (Author/RD)

A hierarchical factor solution was obtained from a psychometrized battery of Piagetian-type tasks individually administered to 660 kindergarten children. The first two levels of factors included Piagetian theoretical entities. A third level factor was identified as a g. The association of Piagetian tasks with academic achievement was through the g…

Compared two behavioral treatments for marital discord with a nonspecific control and waiting-list control. Behavioral treatments combined problem-solving skills with contingency management procedures, differing only in contracting form, good faith contracts, and quid pro quo contracts. Both behavioral groups improved significantly more than…

Investigators are urged to plan factor analytic studies prior to collecting the data, to formulate a hypothesized factor structure, to develop several relatively pure measures of each factor expected, and to select an appropriate sample of at least 200 cases. Continuous variables should be used rather than dichotomous variables. (Author)

In a Monte Carlo simulation, a methodology was developed to investigate the existence of radex properties among objective test items. In an experiment with items covering four categories of Bloom's cognitive domain taxonomy, the items did not have the factorial properties of a radex with four levels of complexity. (Author/BW)

The Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children--Revised was administered to 946 intellectually gifted students, 6 to 16 years old. The factor structure was remarkably similar to that reported for previously studied groups, thus supporting the test's validity. (Author/GDC)

Study investigated whether instruments assessing the sociopsychological climate of classrooms were appropriate from the students' perspective. The Classroom Environment Scale was administered to 185 high school students. Results indicated that students' importance ratings of sociopsychological climate structures validated a three- dimensiona1…