Minimum trace factor analysis has been used to find the greatest lower bound to reliability. This technique, however, fails to be scale free. A solution to the scale problem is proposed through the maximization of the greatest lower bound as the function of weights. (Author/JKS)

The factor-analytic structure of the SRBCSS (Scale for Rating Behavioral Characteristics of Superior Children) was analyzed to determine whether the factors found are similar to the behavioral dimensions that the SRBCSS purports to assess. The results suggest that there are five dimensions being assessed by the SRBCSS. (Author/CL)

A linear structural model for comparing quasi-Markov models across populations is demonstrated. A confirmatory factor analysis formulation of the simplex model is also developed for between group comparisons. A variety of possible applications of this approach are suggested. (Author)

One hundred undergraduate arts students were tested on all the scales of Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scales (WAIS) and the Differential Aptitude Tests. Varimax solutions were extracted on WAIS scores under four analytic conditions. No progressive increment in the WAIS communalities was marked as the marker variables increased. (Author/RL)

Cattell's scree test and Bartlett's chi-square test for the number of factors to be retained from a factor analysis are shown to be based on the same rationale, with the former reflecting subject sampling variability, and the latter reflecting variable sampling variability. (Author/JKS)

The popular factor analytic procedure of putting unities in the main diagonal and retaining all factors with an eigenvalue greater than one is criticized with respect to the number of factors retained and resultant estimates of common variance. Ways of avoiding these difficulties are discussed. (JKS)

Tucker's method of oblique congruence rotation is shown to be equivalent to a procedure by Meredith. This implies that Monte Carlo studies on congruence by Nesselroade, Baltes, and Labouvie and by Korth and Tucker are highly comparable. The problem of rotating two matrices orthogonally to maximal congruence is considered. (Author/CTM)

Three behavior rating scales were filled out by teachers for the entire first grades of three public schools, totalling 225 children. Factor analyses on this nonclinical sample yielded different factors from those found previously on clinical samples. (Author)

The effects of several factors that may explain the socioeconomic bias reported in autism literature was investigated with families of 264 autistic and 258 nonautistic children (mean age six years). (Author/SBH)

Reports a personal commitment dimension in client expectancies about counseling. The findings extend and amplify considerably the information available on the dimensions underlying client expectancies about counseling. (Author)

Orthogonal target analysis, a technique employed in confirmatory factor analysis, is investigated via a simulation study. The results indicate that the technique will recover the correct underlying population pattern except under very unfavorable data conditions and that a close fit to a binary target is not necessarily forced. (Author/JKS)

Answers the intermediate need for a computer procedure that can provide a reasonably sophisticated factor analysis for as many as 500 variables--a program to cover the vast majority of factor analytic requirements with nearly the same degree of ease as that afforded by use of the "little jiffy" programs. (Author/JKS)

New validational data is presented on the author's 8-item individual modernity scale. The scale appears to have acceptable convergent and discriminant validity. Interviewer's Q sort and adjectival descriptions stressed independence and breadth of interests for high-scorers versus conventionality and narrowness of interests for low-scorers. (MV)