Best Practices in Exploratory Factor Analysis

Osborne, Jason W.

doi:10.4135/9781412995627.d8

Cited by 606 publications

(674 citation statements)

References 92 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

558

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…Symptom clusters statistically derived by CFA are more likely to suggest a common pathophysiology, not theoretically inherent in PCA [24,34]. In contrast, confirmatory factor analyses at T2 and T3, of the clusters identified at T1, would assess stability for that structure only, so were not implemented, although model modifications may be suggested in these analyses.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 91%

“…Common factor analysis (CFA) with oblique rotation was implemented as an exploratory factor analysis best practice approach [24] also used by other researchers [11,13,14], although principal components analysis (PCA) with orthogonal rotation has been used [15-17, 25, 26]. To identify and interpret symptom clusters, CFA is appropriate, as common variance among symptoms is assessed, and it is assumed correlations between symptoms are due to a common cause.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Following oblimin (oblique) rotation, analyses were repeated for varying numbers of factors until a simple structure [31] was evident in the pattern matrix, revealing symptoms more strongly associated with one factor than another. Symptoms were included in a cluster for structure coefficients (correlations between factors and symptoms) ≥0.30, an arbitrarily chosen value indicating the factor explains about 10% of the variance in a symptom [24].…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 2 more Smart Citations

Cancer-related symptom clusters for symptom management in outpatients after commencing adjuvant chemotherapy, at 6 months, and 12 months

Skerman

Yates

Battistutta

2011

Support Care Cancer

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 91%

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

Cancer-related symptom clusters for symptom management in outpatients after commencing adjuvant chemotherapy, at 6 months, and 12 months

Skerman

Yates

Battistutta

2011

Support Care Cancer

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…The scree test (Cattell, 1966; see also Osborn, 2014) and Kaiser-Guttman rule (Guttman, 1940;Kaiser, 1960Kaiser, , 1991; see also Osborn, 2014) indicated the range of solutions to examine. Model fit, simple structure, and interpretability were then considered for models within that range.…”

Section: Statistical Proceduresmentioning

confidence: 99%

Orientation to the Caregiver Role Among Latinas of Mexican Origin

Mendez-Luck

Geldhof

Anthony

et al. 2016

GERONT

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Purpose of the Study: To develop the Caregiver Orientation Scale for Mexican-Origin Women and evaluate its psychometric properties. Design and Methods: We developed a questionnaire to measure domains of cultural orientation to the caregiver role based on formative research and on the Cultural Justifications for Caregiving Scale. We conducted a series of exploratory factor analyses (EFAs) on data collected from 163 caregivers. We estimated internal consistency reliability (Cronbach's coefficient alpha) and assessed construct validity by estimating correlations between all latent factors and self-rated health, interview language, and weekly hours of care. Results: EFAs suggested four factors representing familism, obligation, burden, and caregiving intensity that displayed good fit (χ 2 (df = 63) = 70.52, p = .24; RMSEA = .03 [90% CI: 0.00, 0.06]; comparative fit index = .99). Multi-item scales representing the four domains had coefficient alphas ranging from .68 to .86. Obligation was positively associated with burden (.46, p < .001) and intensity (.34, p < .01), which were themselves positively correlated (.63, p < .001). Familism was positively associated with obligation (.25, p < .05) yet negatively associated with burden (−.35, p < .01) and intensity (−.22, p < .05). Weekly hours of care were positively associated with burden (.26, p < .01) and intensity (.18, p < .05), whereas self-rated health and burden (−.21, p < .05) and Spanish language and intensity (−.31, p < .001) were negatively correlated. Implications: The study shows that Mexican-origin caregiver orientation is multidimensional and that caregivers may have conflicting motivations for caregiving. Empirical studies that have examined the cultural values associated with caregiving in Latino populations have focused on familism, a multidimensional construct that has been used to explain the structure and interrelations of Latino families. Familism involves reciprocity and sacrifice across a strong interdependent network of kin and non-kin individuals (Losada et al.

show abstract

“…Both aforementioned uses occur in an exploratory research context, which Osborne (2014) explicitly mentions in a number of occasions:…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Destruição de escalas de mensuração por meio da análise fatorial exploratória nas pesquisas da área de produção e operações

2018

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This paper aims to assess the use of Exploratory Factor Analysis by Production and Operations researchers, discussing the adequacy of its application. We analyzed 97 papers published between 2010 and 2015 in the Production and Operations area --of which 61 and 36 were published in international and Brazilian journals, respectively. These papers contain 140 different applications of Factor Analysis. The research shows that confirmatory techniques are prevalent in international papers, as well as exploratory techniques to evaluate the problem of common method bias. Conversely, the papers in Brazilian journals typically use the exploratory technique in more traditional ways, such as to confirm the unidimensionality of the construct, or still to generate scores for use in other statistical techniques. Despite the textbooks for the AFE teaching focus exclusively on the use of AFE in the exploratory mode (to identify the number and meaning of the common factors), this use has been less frequent in published articles, both national and international. Moreover, the research shows that the inappropriate use of exploratory (rather than confirmatory) factor analysis in four Brazilian papers resulted in the "destruction of theory". These findings suggest that national research have been using exploratory factor analysis in a questionable way; in this sense we propose scholars discuss this topic in order to disseminate the good practices.

show abstract

Best Practices in Exploratory Factor Analysis

Cited by 606 publications

References 92 publications

Cancer-related symptom clusters for symptom management in outpatients after commencing adjuvant chemotherapy, at 6 months, and 12 months

Cancer-related symptom clusters for symptom management in outpatients after commencing adjuvant chemotherapy, at 6 months, and 12 months

Orientation to the Caregiver Role Among Latinas of Mexican Origin

Destruição de escalas de mensuração por meio da análise fatorial exploratória nas pesquisas da área de produção e operações

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About