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)

The paper reviews Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised research that has particular pertinence for the assessment of learning disabilities (LD). Three topics are treated in-depth: factor analysis investigations, recategorization of subtests into Bannatyne's four groupings, and interscale/intrascale scatter. (Author)

Guttman's assumption underlying his definition of "total images" is rejected. Partial images are not generally convergent everywhere. Even divergence everywhere is shown to be possible. The convergence type always found on partial images is convergence in quadratic mean; hence, total images are redefined as quadratic mean-limits.…

As psychologists increasingly employ more elaborate and comprehensive data collection schemes, sophisticated analytic techniques will play an ever more important role in understanding behavioral data. This paper outlines one such promising technique, Tucker's three-mode factor analysis, which enables the researcher to explore new taxonomic…