A study involving 256 adolescents focused on differences in results on androgyny from administration of the Bem Sex Role Inventory (BSRI). The subjects ranged in age from nine to 17 years. The subject group was 75% male and 25% female. Confirmatory and second-order factor analyses of the data were used. Results based on confirmatory maximum…

A general model for recursive-nonrecursive causal networks of factors is outlined. The technical machinery required for operationalizing the model, in terms of analyzing empirical data, is indicated, and some of the more recent multivariate developmental theory is briefly noted in terms of the present model. (CS)

Controversies regarding the validity of divergent findings may be irrelevant in some circumstances because of correlational anomalies. The present study illustrates such situations using sets of hypothetical data to demonstrate how several apparently conflicting findings can all be valid. (Author)

This study was designed to validate Gouldner's (1957, 1958) definition of the cosmopolitan-local construct using the same research techniques he employed: cumulative scaling and factor analysis. Faculty from Pennsylvania's 14 State-owned colleges and universities completed a questionnaire measuring degree of professional orientation. Describes…

Investigated the potential use of factor analytic techniques for identifying personality dimensions in young children. (DP)

FANTAB is a computer program written in Fortran IV which helps design factorial analysis of variance tables and provides formulae for table entries. It is a computerization of a paper entitled: "Rules of Thumb for Writing the Anova Table" (Millman and Glass, 1967). FANTAB is appropriate for factorial models which have two, three, or four…

An alternative content method, allowing bipolar representation and based on separate scaling of quality and intensity, is presented. For comparative purposes the method was used together with a distance method and an ordinary content method, with nine words denoting emotions as stimuli. (Author)

Shows that the Harris factors of R have psychometric properties similar to those discussed by Kaiser and Caffrey (1965) and Bentler (1968). Specifically it is shown that the Harris factors of R maximize a lower-bound to the reliability of a composite measure derived by Guttman (1945). (Author/RC)

Factor structures of student ratings of instruction resulting from total group, between group, and within group analyses were compared. Six factors obtained from responses by students to 31 items were used to approximate the between group covariance matrix based on 437 classroom means and the pooled within classroom covariance matrix. (Author/BJG)

While factor analysis is the most commonly proposed procedure for determining dimensionality, a recently developed procedure called order analysis may also prove to be useful for isolating unidimensional item sets. The first study in this report compares three order analysis procedures: Krus and Bart's (1974) procedure and Reynolds' (1976)…

These four volumes provide a comprehensive survey of the 1,600 factor analytic studies reported in psychological journals between 1941 and 1970. Each study is summarized and indexed using the Psychological Abstracts table of contents. The summaries follow a standard format: purpose, subjects, variables, method, results, and conclusions. The first…

Over the years, a number of rationales have been advanced to solve the problem of "blind" oblique factor transformation. By blind transformation is meant the transformation of orthogonal--and often interpretively ineffectual--factors to a position usually dictated by Thurstone's principles of simple structure, but not influenced by a…

AN INVESTIGATION WAS CONDUCTED (1) TO DEVISE A NUMBER OF LABORATORY MEASURES OF INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES IN SUSCEPTIBILITY TO INTERFERENCE EFFECTS IN LEARNING AND (2) TO DETERMINE THEIR DIMENSIONALITY IN A VARIETY OF INTERFERENCE EFFECTS. SUBJECTS WERE 530 STUDENTS IN INTRODUCTORY COURSES IN EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA,…

In the traditional Guttman-Harris type image analysis, a transformation is applied to the data matrix such that each column of the transformed data matrix is the best least squares estimate of the corresponding column of the data matrix from the remaining columns. The model is scale free. However, it assumes (1) that the correlation matrix is…