The Integration of EFA and CFA: One Method of Evaluating the Construct Validity

Zhongfeng Hu; Juan Li

The Integration of EFA and CFA: One Method of Evaluating the Construct Validity

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The approach of evaluating the construct validity has little development in the past one hundred years. As the theory of EFA and CFA had been proposed and refined these years we can find that they are good methods to evaluating the construct validity. This paper give a concepts of construct validity firstly and then analyzed the shortcoming of existing methods of construct validity evaluating, then stated the traits of EFA and CFA, based on them we summarized that using EFA and CFA together is a good way to evaluating the construct validity.

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Zhongfeng Hu, Juan Li. 2015. "The Integration of EFA and CFA: One Method of Evaluating the Construct Validity". Global Journal of Human-Social Science - A: Arts & Humanities GJHSS-A Volume 15 (GJHSS Volume 15 Issue 33 (A6)).

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