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On Jun 26, 6:42 am, charles19 <charle...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Hi Everyone:
>
> Good to join this group. I am doing exploratory factor analysis on
> several measures related to human personality development. The
> resulting factors are interesting. I am wondering if it is possible to
> do a factor analysis on the factors themselves? In this way, I hope to
> cluster the factors into "mega factors" (Neurosis-Passivity;
> Narcissism-Aggression, etc.).
Yes. They're called "second-order" factors. And R.B. Cattell even used
third-order factors.
>
> I don't know much about confirmatory factor analysis. Would the latter
> yield this type of information (i.e., higher level factors)?
No. But some of the packages -- I don't know which -- will let you
make hypotheses about both first- and second-order factors.
