TY - JOUR
AU - Rohlf, Richard J.
AB - EDUCATIONAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL MEASUREMENT 381-396. 1971, 31, A ALPHA FACTOR ANALYSIS HIGHER-ORDER OF AND ABILITY INTEREST, PERSONALITY, OF THE INCLUDING AN EVALUATION VARIABLES, EFFECT OF SCALE INTERDEPENDENCY J. ROHLF 1 RICHARD Guidance Bureau Kansas University REPORTED correlations variables from among sampled interest, often and although statistically sig- personality, ability measures, value. The are too low to be of nificant, practical predictive usually of the common variance these three domains question among why has been so low is It was the thesis of this writer that the intriguing. of a hierarchical trait structure as a model adoption conceptual would lend clarification to this Such a model possible question. the existence of traits which account postulates &dquo;higher-order&dquo; for, or a &dquo;lower&dquo; level. Such the covariation traits of explain, among constructs can have higher-order conceivably greater generalizabil- and ity 1963) (Coan, 1964), greater explanatory power (Royce, than the constructs at the next lower level. One of this purpose study was to the of the existence of such a hierarchical explore possibility trait structure the use of a factor through higher-order analytic procedure. In the common variance domains at the this procedure among be for in two The first is variable level can 
TI - A Higher-Order Alpha Factor Analysis of Interest, Personality, and Ability Variables, Including an Evaluation of the Effect of Scale Interdependency
JF - Educational and Psychological Measurement
DO - 10.1177/001316447103100205
DA - 1971-07-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/a-higher-order-alpha-factor-analysis-of-interest-personality-and-1IzaWvshkJ
SP - 381
EP - 396
VL - 31
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -