Practical Considerations for Using Exploratory Factor Analysis in Educational Research.

By Amy S. Beavers, John W. Lounsbury, J. Richards, S. Huck, Gary J. Skolits, S. L. Esquivel. 2013

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Improving Your Exploratory Factor Analysis for Ordinal Data: A Demonstration Using FACTOR. (2014, methodology): “PARE has the right to authorize third party reproduction of this article in print, electronic and database forms.”
Ten Steps in Scale Development and Reporting: A Guide for Researchers (2018, background): “Researchers should check for missing data, absence of outliers, linearity, and extreme multicollinearity (Beavers et al., 2013).”
Exploratory factor analysis: Current use, methodological developments and recommendations for good practice (2019, methodology): “recommending these methods (Maroof 2012) or completely ignoring more appropriate tools (Beavers et al. 2013).”
Influence of festival attribute qualities on Slow Food tourists’ experience, satisfaction level and revisit intention (2015, background): “However, the accuracy of the structural representation in this study has been questioned as the total variance generated by factor analysis is less than 50% (Beavers et al., 2013).”