Combining Parallel and Exploratory Factor Analysis in Identifying Relationship Scales in Secondary Data

Nathan D. Wood; Djidjoho C. Akloubou Gnonhosou; Justin W. Bowling

doi:10.1080/01494929.2015.1059785

Combining Parallel and Exploratory Factor Analysis in Identifying Relationship Scales in Secondary Data

Nathan D. Wood, Djidjoho C. Akloubou Gnonhosou, Justin W. Bowling

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Abstract

Common methods used in the literature to identify factors within exploratory factor analysis have been shown to be potentially problematic. This brief report illustrates a state of the art approach in identifying factor structure by adding parallel analysis before exploratory factor analysis. Parallel analysis enables researchers to have a high degree of confidence of the number of factors to extract before exploratory factor analysis. The procedure is illustrated by using items from the National Survey of Families and Households used to identify relationship scales.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	385-395
Number of pages	11
Journal	Marriage and Family Review
Volume	51
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/01494929.2015.1059785
State	Published - Jul 4 2015

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Keywords

National Survey of Households and Families
exploratory factor analysis
marital quality
parallel analysis
relationship adjustment

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Social Sciences (miscellaneous)

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