Tony
4 years & 11 months ago

Hi i was task to do a research on customer satisfaction on water quality, i am completely lost on how to interpret the data i get from Factor Analysis….please help

Asad
5 years & 4 weeks ago

thank you for your inforayion

Ekta
5 years & 1 month ago

Hi!
All those variables which do not have high factor loadings (generally < 0.5) and are out from the groups of variables appearing in pattern matrix, are excluded from the research study. In fact you can suppress the values below 0.5 at the time when you run this code Analyze-> Dimension reduction-> Options-> Suppress

Asma' Ismail
5 years & 1 month ago

Hello, i need to know from which part i should removed my variable. Based on the value in rotated componet matrix or component matrix?

Robert wandera wamalwa
2 years & 9 months ago

Any values that crossloads or they have values below 0.4 should be deleted

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Abbas
5 years & 4 months ago

hello dear
Please tell me about the loading factor and how to analyze it in spss

Ashwani
5 years & 7 months ago

anybody there to help? i would appreciate an early solution. i am stuck with this last portion.

Ashwani
5 years & 7 months ago

Hi,
i need a help regarding PCA . In the Rotated Matrix, there is only one Variable which is getting loaded on 5th factor, with a high value of 0.888 ( the variables of same category are loaded on factor 3rd), what do i do in this case.

Ayesha Rehman
5 years & 8 months ago

can anyone help me that after running EFA Test I got 13 factors. I used 44 questions in my questionnaire so now have to extract some questions so how to decide which questions should I extract.

Ma
5 years & 9 months ago

hi
I’m doing CFA using Amos, my fit indices are weak, I’m suggested performing EFA and prepare good data for CFA ( removing all items that cause problems in model fit). after reading many videos, I can run EFA but my big issue is that I can’t be able to interpret EFA results ( how to know those items that cause problems in my model) Can you help me please on the hint. I also have 4 constructs with 44 items, should I run EFA for whole constructs or individual construct?
thank you so much in advance

Sudeshna Chakraborty
5 years & 9 months ago

Hello Ma,

Although I am not sure about your study aim or its variables, still in a generic sense, running EFA on 44 items/factors will help you narrow down the items/factors with highest loadings. The ones with the highest loadings will further be analysed using CFA.

So, to answer your query on how to know the items problematic- you should identify them with the factor loadings given in Factor Matrix, Pattern Matrix and Structure Matrix tables.
Factor loadings help you understand the relationship (correlation coefficient) between a symptom/dimension and a factor/item.

Hope this helps and do let us know!

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Sonia
5 years & 11 months ago

Hi,
I am doing an EFA and I need to know if there is lower communalities do you remove that first or the cross loading item. I followed the procedure check KMO, Bartletts test, communalities and then Pattern Matrix.

Sudeshna
5 years & 11 months ago

Hey Sonia,

If you see any item cross loading, see the items, if the communality is less than 0.5, try removing those items from further analysis. Remember that the deletion of the items should not affect the Factor theoretically. It should be theoretically justified. If the item is important and its deletion can affect the content validity of the construct, you may need to retain it.

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