How can you help to control for oppositely worded items producing an artifactual factor structure?

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How can you help to control for oppositely worded items producing an artifactual factor structure?

Spector et al (1997) wrote an article to show that artifactual items can be produced by factor analysis when researchers use negative items on a survey because people will only endorse (agree with) items that are close to their true level of the construct, and will disagree with items that are far away in either […]

arnold on Sep 16, 2008