Multivariate Experimental Clinical Research, v.3 no.2
Permanent URI for this collection
Browse
Recent Submissions
Item Journal of Multivariate Experimental Personality and Clinical Psychology, v.3, no.2 (complete version)(Wichita State University, Department of Psychology, 1977)Item A multivariate analysis of male athlete personality characteristics: Sport type and success(Wichita State University, Department of Psychology, 1977) Schurr, K. T.; Ashley, M. A.; Joy, K. L.One thousand five hundred-ninety six college students completed the 16PF Questionnaire and were then categorized by (1) involvement in athletics, (2) type of sport, and (3) level of success. An unbalanced hierarchical multivariate analysis of variance using Cattell's eight second stratum factors was then performed. Results support the contention that moderator variables involving sport type are of primary importance in the development of theory involving sports-personality relationships.Item Chronic welfare dependency: A multivariate analysis of personality factors(Wichita State University, Department of Psychology, 1977) MacLean, M. E.In North America chronic welfare dependency (CWD) is a serious problem that involves millions of individuals, cost billions of tax dollars, and represents a great waste of human resources. It is postulated that CWD, over the past 30 years, has been conceptualized too simplistically and relatively unimportant variables have been emphasized in rehabilitation programs. This study suggests that, whatever the etiological factors, CWD represents a complex set of interacting personality factors. The personality factors associated with CWD suggest that rehabilitation programs need to employ multimodal and sophisticated psychotherapeutic strategies, especially those developed for the treatment of anxiety and the neuroses.Item The practicality of an orthogonal confactor rotation for the approximate resolution of oblique factors(Wichita State University, Department of Psychology, 1977) Cattell, Raymond B. (Raymond Bernard), 1905-1998; Brennan, JerryThe confactor rotational solution for the orthogonal case was estimated for possible use as an approximation to the more general oblique case. Two plasmodes were designed: one with seven variables and three factors and the other using 16 variables and six factors. In both plasmodes good rotational solutions were found when relatively small and moderate correlations existed among the factors. The Confactor rotational solutions for the orthogonal case was found to be a good approximation for the oblique case when the two parallel sets of data have the same correlations.Item Factorial validity by tautology: Methodological comments on Stewart and Stewart(Wichita State University, Department of Psychology, 1977) Dorans, Neil J.A recent attempt to assess the factorial validity of the Eight State Questionnaire used an unusual methodological procedure that is tautological in nature. Retention and rotation of all principle components to a trivial simple structure, in which each component is marked by one and only one scale, is guaranteed for any nonsingular correlation matrix. The certain existence of the transformation to this trivial structure precludes the use of its existence as scientific evidence of factorial validity. A verbal, geometric argument and a formal mathematical proof support the contention that this unusual methodology is tautological, and hence should be avoided in future research.