Five questionnaires were administered to a group of subjects on two separate occasions. The principal concerns were the following: (1) to find evidence for the existence of stable (i.e., over testings) circular triads, (2) To investigate the appropriateness of the additive difference model, if such stable circularities are found, and (3) If such…

The epistemological status of factors--that is, components, common factors, and image factors--is briefly discussed. Implications for the number of factors problem of varying views of factor analysis and the particular factor analytic model employed are noted, and the rationales underlying the best known decision rules regarding the correct number…

THIS STUDY WAS CONCERNED WITH THE NATURE AND RELATIONSHIPS AMONG THE COGNITIVE FACTORS, ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS, AND THEIR PERSONALITY AND ACADEMIC CORRELATES. ENTERING FRESHMEN AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN WERE TESTED WITH A BATTERY OF NINE TESTS TO OBTAIN THE DATA REQUIRED FOR ANALYSIS. SUSPECTED CONTAMINATION OF THE TEST RESULTS DUE TO…

Reports on the construct validity of the Staff Morale Questionnaire, initially developed to measure five dimensions of morale among Australian teachers. Factor analysis confirms that the instrument taps only three dimensions--cohesive pride, leadership synergy, and personal challenge. (Author/IRT)

A rigorous definition for a factor analysis model and a complete solution of the factor score indeterminacy problem are presented in this technical paper. The meaning and application of these results are discussed. (Author/JKS)

A special case of Bloxom's version of Tucker's three mode factor analysis model is developed statistically. A goodness of fit test and an empirical example are presented. (Author/JKS)

Properties of categories were investigated by analyzing 22 measures of the 56 categories used in the 1969 Battig and Montague norms. A factor analysis of the data indicated that categories in semantic memory possess at least four factors (category familiarity, category size, category-label printed frequency, semantic complexity) that may affect…

Principal components analysis is generalized to the case where any of the variables under consideration can be nominal, ordinal or interval. Hotelling's original formulation is seen to be a special case of this generalization. (JKS)

A simple roof is presented: that the squared multiple correlation of a variable with the remaining variables in the set of variables is a lower bound to the communality of that variable. (Author/JKS)

The factor structure of 109 Occupational Reinforcer Patterns approximating the distribution of the employed labor force of the United States is investigated. These work-reinforcer systems were found to be best represented by a three-factor solution: A Self Reinforcement factor, and Environmental/Organizational reinforcement factor, and a…

A group of factor analytic rotation procedures are developed which yield both hyperplane fittings and oblique Procrustean analyses as special cases. It is generally supposed that these techniques are rather different in approach. Illustrations are presented and discussed. (Author/JKS)

Scale scores of KOIS profiles of 202 reentry women were converted to within individual form by means of a z-score transformation. Seven factors emerged on the female-normed scales and 11 factors on the male-normed scales. Four factors were similar in both norm sets and two showed some overlap. (Author)

The structure of interests can be conceived of as a structure of occupational stimuli embedded within the matrix of affective responses which they produce. Three dimensions of affect are used as the axes of a semantic space within which the occupational stimuli are located according to their unique affective meaning. (Author)

Presents a study of the identification of distinct dimensions within Rotter's Internal-External Control Scale. Five hundred college seniors served as subjects. (BD)

Principal component analysis, image component analysis, and maximum likelihood factor analysis were compared to assess the effects of variable sampling. Results with respect to degree of saturation and average number of variables per factor were clear and dramatic. Differential effects on boundary cases and nonconvergence problems were also found.…