Essential Unidimensionality Examination for Multicomponent Scales: An Interrelationship Decomposition Approach

Educational and Psychological Measurement

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 581-600

  Raykov, Tenko ^a   Pohl, Steffi ^b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BAMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

common factor; correlation; essential unidimensionality; interval estimation; proportion explained correlations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879516145     PISSN: 00131644     EISSN: 15523888     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0013164412470451     Document Type: Article

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