The Scientific Use of Factor Analysis in Behavioral and Life Sciences

I.- 1 The Position of Factor Analysis in Psychological Research.- 2 Extracting Factors: The Algebraic Picture.- 3 Rotating Factors: The Geometric Picture.- 4 Fixing the Number of Factors: TheScientific Model 52.- 5 Fixing the Number of Factors: The Most Practicable Psychometric Procedures.- 6 The Theory of Unique Rotational Resolution by Confactor, Procrustes, and Simple Structure Principles.- 7 The Techniques of Simple Structure Rotation.- 8 More Refined Issues in Rotation and the Use of Oblique Factors.- 9 Higher-Order Factors: Models and Formulas.- 10 The Identification and Interpretation of Factors.- II.- 11 Factor Measures: Their Construction, Scoring, Psychometric Validity, and Consistency.- 12 Broader Experimental Designs and Uses: The Data Box and the New Techniques.- 13 Varieties of Factor Models in Relation to Scientific Models.- 14 Distribution, Scaling, and Significance Problems.- 15 Conducting a Factor Analytic Research: Strategy and Tactics.- Appendixes.- A. 1. Proposed Standard Notation: Rationale and Outline.- A.2. An Indexing System for Psychological Factors.- A.3. Note on Utility of Confactor Resolutions with Oblique Factors.- A.4. Transformations among SUD, SSA, and IIA Strata Models: Reversion from the Schmid-Leiman Matrix (IIA).- A.5. A Practicable Minimum List of Computer Programs.- A.6. Tables for Statistical Significance of Simple Structure.- A. 7. Tables for Significance of Congruence Coefficients in Factor Matching.- A.8. Tables for Significance of Salient Variable Similarity Index s.- References.- Author Index.