First-order Confirmatory Factor Analysis Research Articles

The construct dimensionality of victim blame: The situations of physical child abuse and rape

The dimensionality of the victim blame construct was investigated on 897 college undergraduates. Participants were administered questionnaires to assess the extent to which they blame victims of physical child abuse and rape. Several other personality measures were also given. We hypothesized that the multidimensionality of victim blame would be corroborated. Specifically, we asserted that behavioral, characterological, and abuser justification components of victim blame would emerge as separate constructs. We also predicted that blame directed toward child abuse victims and blame directed toward victims of rape would emerge as distinct factors. A first-order and second-order confirmatory factor analysis was carried out. The findings did not support the hypotheses. Instead, a global victim blame construct emerged with child blame and rape blame as specific factors. Behavioral, characterological, and abuser justification components of victim blame also appeared to stem from a more global victim blame construct.

Bilingualism and Subjective Well-Being in a Sample of Elderly Hispanics

This study aims to examine Ihe relationship between bilingualism and subjective well-being among elderly Hispanics. Bilingualism is viewed as the abilily to communicate in both English and Spanish. Subiective well-being includes positive affect and lack of negative affect. The study uses data from the 1988 national survey on elderly Hispanics. A sample of 632 elderly bilinguals whose first language was Spanish was selected for the analyses. LISREL 7 was used to test the correlations among two dimensions of bilingualism and two dimensions of subjective well-being. Both first-order confirmatory factor analysis and second-order confirmatory factor analysis reveal that languages and psychological well being correlated in expected directions. More importanlly, the study found that elderly Hispanics who had a stronger bilingual ability had a better psychological status. It is suggested that the social work profession can play an important role in helping recently arrived immigrants and refugees to learn English...

Multitrait–multimethod matrices in consumer research: Critique and new developments

In this article we address problems with recently proposed methods for examining construct validity and we introduce alternatives. With respect to the firstorder confirmatory factor analysis model, shortcomings in the application of the method to multitrait‐multimethod data are considered. The correlated uniqueness model is then presented as an alternative when ill‐defined solutions arise in first‐order confirmatory factor analyses or when method and trait variance are confounded. Procedures are then developed for investigating important hypotheses in the application of the direct product model. These procedures were not considered in previous treatments. Finally, panel models are shown to be adaptable to certain investigations of construct validity.

Confirmatory and Hierarchical Confirmatory Analysis of the Differential Ability Scales

The purposes of this research were, first, to determine whether the varied tests contained in the Differential Ability Scales (DAS) measure the same constructs across its wide range, and, second, to determine what constructs and abilities are being measured by this new test. Confirmatory analysis was performed on the standardization data of the DAS using the LISREL 7 computer program. The first set of analyses, which included statistical comparisons of covariance matrices and first-order confirmatory factor analyses, suggested that the constructs measured by the DAS are quite consistent across overlapping age ranges. The second set — hierarchical confirmatory factor analyses — suggested that the DAS first provides a good measure of g, general intelligence. Also, the DAS appears to measure verbal ability and nonverbal reasoning skills.