A schedule was developed for assessing the future outlook of hospitalized psychiatric patients and administered to samples of patients from two different hospitals. A factor analysis was done for each sample. (CK)

Examines the validity of three dimensions of aesthetic perception: hedonic value, arousal, and uncertainty. Hedonic interest and arousal factors were found to differ from factors previously reported, while the uncertainty factor paralleled that previously reported. (Author/RH)

Examples are given to show how the semistrandardized (SS) regression coefficient provides information not given by the conventional standardized regression coefficients used in factor, canonical, and path analysis. (Author/RL)

The extent to which one can reduce the rank of a symmetric matrix by only changing its diagonal entries is discussed. Extension of this work to minimum trace factor analysis is presented. (Author/JKS)