Application of the Quartimax Method of Rotation to Thurstone's Primary Mental Abilities Study  

Oleh:

Wrigley, Charles ; Saunders, David R. ; Neuhaus, Jack O.

Jenis: Article from Journal - e-Journal
Dalam koleksi: Psychometrika: A Journal of Quantitative Psychology vol. 23 no. 2 (Jun. 1958), page 151-170.
Topik: Quartimax; Method of Rotation; Thurstone's Primary Mental Abilities
Fulltext: Vol 23 No. 2 June 1958 p.151-170.pdf (1.02MB)

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This study compares a quartimax rotation of the centroid factor loadings for Thurstone's Primary Mental Abilities Test Battery with factorings of the same correlation matrix by Thurstone (simple structure), Zimmerman (revised simple structure), Holzinger and Harman (bi-factor analysis), and Eysenck (group factor analysis). The quartimax results agree very closely with the solutions of Holzinger and Harman and of Eysenck, and reasonably well with the two simple structure analyses. The principal difference is the general factor provided by the quartimax solution. Reproduction of the factorial structure is sufficiently good to justify its use at least as the first stage of rotation. More extensive trial of the method will be needed with more varied data before it will be possible to decide whether quartimax factors meet psychological requirements sufficiently well without further rotation.

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