Making Sense of Factor Analysis: The Use of Factor Analysis for Instrument Development in Health Care Research

By J. Sullivan, M. Pett, N. Lackey. 2003

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Connecting the STEM dots: measuring the effect of an integrated engineering design intervention (2014, methodology): “2004), Catell’s scree plot analysis (Pett et al. 2003), parallel analysis (Hayton et al.”
Two Criteria for Good Measurements in Research: Validity and Reliability (2017, unknown): “Construct validity of the instrument is checked by correlation analysis, factor analysis, and the multi-trait, multi-method matrix of correlations [Pett et al., 2003].”
Ten Steps in Scale Development and Reporting: A Guide for Researchers (2018, methodology): “Interviews, focus groups, and expert feedback are critical in the item generation and dimension identification process (Broom, 2006; Clark & Watson, 1995; DeVellis, 2012; Pett et al., 2003; Simms, 2008; Worthington & Whittaker, 2006).”
Development of the Educational and Career Interest Scale in Science, Technology, and Mathematics for High School Students (2013, background): “Factors with less than 2 items indicated a poor quality (Pett et al. 2003).”
Developing a risk assessment model for PPP projects in China — A fuzzy synthetic evaluation approach (2010, methodology): “It is used to test the hypothesis that the correlationmatrix is an identity matrix, which indicates that there is no relationship amongst the items [31].”