Acquiescent responding in balanced multidimensional scales and exploratory factor analysis

Psychometrika

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 769-777

  Lorenzo Seva, Urbano ^a   Rodríguez Fornells, Antoni ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Acquiescence; Balanced scales; Exploratory factor analysis; Factor simplicity

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247156687     PISSN: 00333123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11336-004-1207-4     Document Type: Article

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