This paper reviewed several studies supporting the idea that empathy is an important aspect of interpersonal behavior and moral conduct and providing further evidence for the validity of an empathy scale. Minres factor analyses were performed to determine the underlying structure of the empathy scale and its relationship to the California…

This study investigated the relationship between counseling center orientation and size of institution in which the center is located. The results indicated that institutional size predicts counseling center orientation but that a more qualitative evaluation of counseling centers requires other than census-type data. (Author/LA)

Data on 19 threshold work experience variables were obtained by interview from 183 high school graduates and 90 dropouts one and a half years after leaving school. Factor analyses of these data showed strikingly similar factor structures for both groups. (Author)

This paper confronts two interrelated problems, that problem dealing with the psychological concept of attitudes and the problem of attitude measurement. (Author)

Reanalysis by author, using an enlarged sample, of his report, A factor analytic study of communication skills and nonverbal abilities of deaf rehabilitation clients, Multivariate Behavioral Research, 1971, 6, 485-501. (CB)

The broad objective of this study then, is to attempt to discover whether a set of environmental variables presumably of significance for cognitive growth, generates similar factor structures across groups of varying socioeconomic status. (Author)

Comments based on J. J. Kennedy's The eta coefficient in complex ANOVA designs,'' EJ 031 388. (CB)

The connotative structure of self-concept was examined by factor analysis of a semantic differential instrument and found to be essentially constant through adolescence, more so for boys than for girls. (Author)

The study obtained the results of a factor analysis of speech consonant articulation data for a sample of elementary school children with functional articulation disorders. (Author)

Altruism as an attitude was measured by questionnaire techniques in boys and girls, aged approximately eleven to fourteen. Factor analysis was used to identify the underlying attribute which is clearly found for each of the four age-sex groups separately. (Editor/CB)

Results indicate that the troublesome scale/concept interaction which in past studies has lowered the internal validity of many investigations can be reduced by the simple expedient of controlling for homogeneity of domain of scales and concepts employed. (Authors)

Author presents a method for calculating item factor scores which are independent of item trait scores. (MB)

Focus of this paper is on the logic of the model rather than the estimation of parameters or testing the fit of the model to data. (Authors/MB)