Psychological Test Toolbox: A New Tool to Compute Factor Analysis Controlling Response Bias

2019
The effects of response bias in psychological tests have been investigated for years, the two most common being social desirability (SD) and acquiescence (AC). However, the traditional methods for controlling or eliminating the impact of those biases in participants' scores have several limitations. Some factor analysis-based methods can overcome some of these limitations, such as the procedure proposed by Ferrando, Lorenzo-Seva, and Chico (2009). Nevertheless, this method involves programming skills that are not common among applied researchers or clinicians. Consequently, we have developed a stand-alone, user-friendly application that provides an easy way of using the aforementioned method to perform a factor analysis which controls for the effect of AC and SD. The program has been developed in the MATLAB environment and its distribution is entirely free.
JOURNAL OF STATISTICAL SOFTWARE
卷号:91|期号:6
ISSN:1548-7660
来源机构
Universitat Rovira i Virgili
收录类型
SSCI
发表日期
2019
学科领域
循证社会科学-方法
国家
西班牙
语种
英语
DOI
10.18637/jss.v091.i06
其他关键词
FACTOR-ANALYTIC PROCEDURES; AGGRESSION QUESTIONNAIRE; MULTIDIMENSIONAL SCALES; PERSONALITY INVENTORIES; SOCIAL DESIRABILITY; OBLIQUE ROTATION; ACQUIESCENCE; VALIDATION
资助机构
Catalan Ministry of Universities, Research and the Information Society [2014SGR73]; Spanish Ministry of Economy and CompetitivitySpanish Government [PSI2014-52884-P]
资助信息
The research was partially supported by a grant from the Catalan Ministry of Universities, Research and the Information Society (2014SGR73) and by a grant from the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitivity (PSI2014-52884-P).
被引频次(WOS)
2
被引更新日期
2022-01
关键词
response bias social desirability acquiescence exploratory factor analysis MATLAB