A Step-by-Step Guide to Exploratory Factor Analysis with SPSS

✍ Scribed by Marley W. Watkins

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 223
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This is a concise, easy to use, step-by-step guide for applied researchers conducting exploratory factor analysis (EFA) using SPSS.

In this book, Dr. Watkins systematically reviews each decision step in EFA with screen shots and code from SPSS and recommends evidence-based best-practice procedures. This is an eminently applied, practical approach with few or no formulas and is aimed at readers with little to no mathematical background. Dr. Watkins maintains an accessible tone throughout and uses minimal jargon to help facilitate grasp of the key issues users will face while applying EFA, along with how to implement, interpret, and report results. Copious scholarly references and quotations are included to support the reader in responding to editorial reviews.

This is a valuable resource for upper-level undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as for more experienced researchers undertaking multivariate or structure equation modeling courses across the behavioral, medical, and social sciences.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Title
Copyright
Contents
List of Figures
Preface
1 Introduction: Historical Foundations
2 Data
3 SPSS Software
4 Importing and Saving Data
5 Decision Steps in Exploratory Factor Analysis
6 Step 1: Variables to Include
7 Step 2: Participants
8 Step 3: Data Screening
9 Step 4: Is Exploratory Factor Analysis Appropriate?
10 Step 5: Factor Analysis Model
11 Step 6: Factor Extraction Method
12 Step 7: How Many Factors to Retain
13 Step 8: Rotate Factors
14 Step 9: Interpret Exploratory Factor Analysis Results
15 Step 10: Report Exploratory Factor Analysis Results
16 Exploratory Factor Analysis with Categorical Variables
17 Higher-Order and Bifactor Models
18 Exploratory Versus Confirmatory Factor Analysis
19 Practice Exercises
References and Resources
Index