Making Sense of Factor Analysis: The Use of Factor Analysis for Instrument Development in Health Care Research Book

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction
1	An Overview of Factor Analysis	1
2	Designing and Testing the Instrument	13
3	Assessing the Characteristics of Matrices	51
4	Extracting the Initial Factors	85
5	Rotating the Factors	131
6	Evaluating and Refining the Factors	167
7	Interpreting Factors and Generating Factor Scores	207
8	Reporting and Replicating the Results	226
App. A	Concerns About Genetic Testing Scale	241
App. B	SAS Commands and Generate Output	243
App. C	Output for 20-item CGTS Scale	277
App. D	Tables for the Chi-Square and Normal Distributions	283
App. E	Unraveling the Mystery of Principal Component Extraction	287
	References	315
	Index	327
	About the Authors	347