Re: factor analysis

Posted by vonvon on May 05, 2014; 3:02am
URL: http://spssx-discussion.165.s1.nabble.com/factor-analysis-tp5725781p5725789.html

Thanks for your replied.

the questions are based on self administered questionnaires. My supervisor asked to use factor analysis to reduce the number of items in the questionnaire.

I want to retain all of the 5 factors if possible. Yes, I used the varimax solution as well. Some of the items have higher loading score on the component it does not belong on. (eg: one variables for 5 questions, 3 of them have high loading (>0.5)  in component 2, while 2 of them have high loading in component 3.
and I have 1 variable that have only 1 question is greater than 0.5.

I have a total  of 254 respondents in my research.