Factor analysis and rotation of the 566 MMPI items
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- Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory items, factor analysis, rotation
- Abstract
- Because of the still imperfectly understood basic factor structure of the MMPI, a principal components analysis and varimax rotation was conducted on the MMPI item responses of 50 female under-graduate students of education at Massey University. Eight factors were extracted: neuroticism, antisocial behavior, fundamentalist religiosity, subjectivity, introversion, paranoic tendency, depression, and physical symptoms. The possibly different factor structure for males and females needs explication in further work.
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- 1974-08-01
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- Volume 2, 1974, Issue 2
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