I am performing a large (105 variable) factor analysis with factanal,
specifying promax rotation. I kow that some loadings over 1.0 are not
unsual with that rotation, but I have some as large as 1.2, which seems
extreme. I am skirting the assumptions of the model by using responses
on a 7-point rating scale as data; I may have to go back and compute
polychoric correlations instead of product moment, but before doing that
I would like to know if others have had equally large factor loadings
using data that are truly interval level data on continuous scales.
Thanks for suggestions or information,
Ben Fairbank
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