Recent content by Comfort Eagle

De Ayala (2009) writes: This always made sense to me until recently. In any statement found in a psychological questionnaire, there is semantic overlap between constructs. Heck, we even allow factors to be correlated in obliquely rotaded PCAs and EFAs. As soon as any two factors are...

Hm, but I also get factor loadings > 1 when specifying only one single factor. Never heard of ESEMs before, thanks!

Thanks. I'm cross validating two questionnaires and the > 1 loadings come from an established big five inventory. If loadings are akin to regression estimates, I suspect they might be able to amount to > 1 if the items are highly correlated?

Hi folks, What are potential causes for factor loadings > 1 in CFA with lavaan? I'm using standardized loadings (std.lv). Is this generally concerning? Thanks

I'm unsure of how to test this hypothesis and would greatly appreciate your ideas: For illustrative purposes, let's assume that two groups of people (experts vs. novices) author a questionnaire with five scales (scale1 to scale5). Let's further assume that I have reason to hypothesize that when...

I have two questions regarding the comparison of two correlation coefficients from a single (paired / dependent) sample: Is it legitimate to use a test for comparing independent correlation coefficients instead? My understanding is that the only drawback is that this would compromise power...

I'm new to path analysis in SEM and suspicious about my model fit indices in R / lavaan: lavaan 0.6-6 ended normally after 27 iterations Estimator ML Optimization method NLMINB Number of free parameters...

I don't care about this intercept or what it represents, as long its not an intersection of factor levels, which would make it hard to interpret.

Hello internet, lets say I want to predict an outcome using multiple categorical predictors. Please consider the follow reproducible R-code: library(dplyr) library(psych) set.seed(42) n <- 500 df <- data.frame( loneliness = round(runif(n, 0, 1)), pet = factor(round(runif(n, 0, 1)))...

Hey all, I'm not used to work with multiple regression analysis, so I would be glad if anyone could help me interpreting this result: I performed a hierarchical multiple regression in SPSS (forced entry) in two Blocks to predict to variable SM: Block 1: Predictors: IQ, AGE Block 2...

Hey folks, i really am desperate for help with this, since I have to present my results at a conference in less than two weeks. I am a statistics-noob undergraduate psychoglogy-student, so please go easy on me. Research and Variables I want to examine the correlative relationship between a...