Scale development research - A content analysis and recommendations for best practices

被引:2358
作者
Worthington, Roger L. [2 ]
Whittaker, Tiffany A.
机构
[1] Univ Texas, Austin, TX 78712 USA
[2] Univ Missouri, Dept Educ, Columbia, MO 65211 USA
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10.1177/0011000006288127
中图分类号
B849 [应用心理学];
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040203 ;
摘要
The authors conducted a content analysis on new scale development articles appearing in the Journal of Counseling Psychology during 10 years (1995 to 2004). The authors analyze and discuss characteristics of the exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis procedures in these scale development studies with respect to sample characteristics, factorability, extraction methods, rotation methods, item deletion or retention, factor retention, and model fit indexes. The authors uncovered a variety of specific practices that were at variance with the current literature on factor analysis or structural equation modeling. They make recommendations for best practices in scale development research in counseling psychology using exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis.
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页码:806 / 838
页数:33
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