Author, as appears in the article.: Navarro-Gonzalez, David; Vigil-Colet, Andreu; Joan Ferrando, Pere; Lorenzo-Seva, Urbano;

Department: Psicologia

URV's Author/s: Ferrando Piera, Pere Joan / Lorenzo Seva, Urbano / Navarro González, David / Vigil Colet, Andrés

Keywords: Validation Social desirability Response bias Personality inventories Oblique rotation Multidimensional scales Matlab Mat-lab Factor-analytic procedures Exploratory factor analysis Aggression questionnaire Acquiescence

Abstract: The effects of response bias in psychological tests have been investigated for years, the two most common being social desirability (SD) and acquiescence (AC). However, the traditional methods for controlling or eliminating the impact of those biases in participants' scores have several limitations. Some factor analysis-based methods can overcome some of these limitations, such as the procedure proposed by Ferrando, Lorenzo-Seva, and Chico (2009). Nevertheless, this method involves programming skills that are not common among applied researchers or clinicians. Consequently, we have developed a stand-alone, user-friendly application that provides an easy way of using the aforementioned method to perform a factor analysis which controls for the effect of AC and SD. The program has been developed in the MATLAB environment and its distribution is entirely free.

Thematic Areas: Statistics, probability and uncertainty Statistics and probability Statistics & probability Software Saúde coletiva Matemática / probabilidade e estatística Interdisciplinar Engenharias iii Engenharias i Computer science, interdisciplinary applications Ciencias sociales Ciência política e relações internacionais Ciência da computação

licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/

ISSN: 15487660

Author's mail: david.navarro@urv.cat perejoan.ferrando@urv.cat andreu.vigil@urv.cat urbano.lorenzo@urv.cat

Author identifier: 0000-0002-9843-5058 0000-0002-3133-5466 0000-0003-3818-4514 0000-0001-5369-3099

Record's date: 2023-02-18

Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

Link to the original source: https://www.jstatsoft.org/article/view/v091i06

Licence document URL: http://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/

Papper original source: Journal Of Statistical Software. 91 (6):

APA: Navarro-Gonzalez, David; Vigil-Colet, Andreu; Joan Ferrando, Pere; Lorenzo-Seva, Urbano; (2019). Psychological Test Toolbox: A New Tool to Compute Factor Analysis Controlling Response Bias. Journal Of Statistical Software, 91(6), -. DOI: 10.18637/jss.v091.i06

Article's DOI: 10.18637/jss.v091.i06

Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili

Journal publication year: 2019

Publication Type: Journal Publications