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Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) is a very popular statistical tool that is used throughout the social sciences. It has proven useful for assessing theories of learning, cognition, and personality (Aluja, García, & García, 2004), for exploring scale validity (Manos, Rachel C.; Kanter, Jonathan W.; Luo, Wen;), and for reducing the dimensionality in a set of variables so that they can be used more easily in further statistical analyses (Mashal & Kasirer, 2012).
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finch, W.H. (2013). Exploratory Factor Analysis. In: Teo, T. (eds) Handbook of Quantitative Methods for Educational Research. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-404-8_8
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