Best practices in exploratory factor analysis: four recommendations for getting the most from your analysis.

By Anna Costello, Jason W. Osborne. 2005

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Formation of Stakeholder Trust in Business and the Role of Personal Values (2015, positive): “Using the indicated values, we conducted a factor analysis (for employed procedure refer, e.g., to Costello and Osborne 2011; Habing 2003) to assess the existence of higher order value prototypes of the respondents, thereby confirming prior results of Schwartz et al. In line with prior analysis, we…”
Brain Drain: The Mere Presence of One’s Own Smartphone Reduces Available Cognitive Capacity (2017, neutral): “Two items did not clearly load onto either primary factor and were excluded from further analyses (Costello and Osborne 2005).”
Post-hoc Interpretability for Neural NLP: A Survey (2021, methodology): “Park et al. [84] perform such rotation using Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) [33].”
An Examination Of The Museum Experience Based On Pine And Gilmore's Experience Economy Realms (2015, background): “Three criteria, namely, a high factor loading (>0.5), low cross-loading (<0.5) and high communality (>0.4) (Costello & Osborne, 2005) were taken into account in deciding to retain an item.”
Initial Development and Validation of the School Belongingness Scale (2016, methodology): “Considering the normality results and factors would be inversely correlated, Maximum Likelihood extraction method with Promax (oblique) rotation was considered the most appropriate approach for exploratory factor analysis (Costello and Osborne 2005).”
Investigating the performance of Exploratory Graph analysis and traditional techniques to identify the number of latent factors: a simulation and tutorial (2018, methodology): “In the case of K1, the method tended to overestimate the population dimensionality by very large amounts, as has been widely documented in the literature (Costello & Osborne, 2005).”
Examining determinants of entrepreneurial intentions in Slovenia: applying the theory of planned behaviour and an innovative cognitive style (2018, methodology): “The approach suggested by Costello and Osborne (2005) was used by applying a loading”
About the structure of posturography: Sampling duration, parametrization, focus of attention (part II) (2012, background): “85 which match the specifications of [44] and [45].”
Cronbach's Alpha: Review of Limitations and Associated Recommendations (2010, methodology): “The use of any of this method portend great implications in subsequent interpretation of components that emerged because they perform two different functions (Costello & Osborne, 2005; Fabriger et al., 1999; Ford et al., 1986).”