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Title: Using the short subscales of a questionnaire to assess subcomponents with low reliabilities: a cautionary note.
Author: Abdel-Khalek A, Lester D
Abstract:
Some authors of personality questionnaires use factor analysis with the aim of constructing subcomponents to assess subsidiary traits within the broad domain tapped by the scale. However, these short subscales suffer from low reliabilities in most case
Journal: Psychol Rep. 2002 Jun;90(3 Pt 2):1255-6