Is Item Overlap Responsible for a “Built-in” Factor Structure?
- 1 December 1968
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 23 (3) , 935-938
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1968.23.3.935
Abstract
3 sets of empirical data, 2 from samples of college students and 1 from a sample of psychopathic felons, were factored, along with correlations based solely on the number of overlapping items in the Personal Orientation Inventory. The factor structure found in the item-overlap correlations closely resembled that found in the empirical data, but whether this “built-in” factor structure is attributable to item overlap per se appears to be an unanswerable question.Keywords
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