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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
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| Journal: | Psychol Rep. 2002 Jun;90(3 Pt 2):1255-6 |