Relationships between three multiple orthogonal factors and four bifactors.

1 October 1938

journal article
research article
Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in Journal of Educational Psychology

Vol. 29 (7) , 513-519
https://doi.org/10.1037/h0054801

Abstract

Actual data are used to illustrate that a set of tests may be expressed as linear functions of a general and several group factors, or as functions of group factors alone, and that the exact relationships between these 2 sets of factors may be given under certain conditions. The author lists some arguments which lead him to prefer the bifactor to the multiple-factor solution.