Factor Analysis Using SPSS

[@8shelbyg]

Factor analysis is a pretty complicated concept for me to grasp, so I like that this is explained in video form. If I start to get lost, I can rewind and figure things out for myself, whereas if this were a regular lecture, it would be easy to get lost in such a difficult concept. Showing this in SPSS makes me feel like I would be able to do this myself, something I thought was way above my skill level.

[@farahbahgat2360]

Thank you so much Dr. Grande. Wouldn't have made it through grad school without your videos.

[@DrGrande]

you are quite welcome

[@vidaadansi5633]

Great step by step presentation of using SPSS. It's a lot to learn and master using SPSS but Dr. Grande takes his time to explain the process very well. I have used SPSS before and do I know it be can be used to determine correlations of items. I definitely have to watch again and again in order to remember the process. Great work.

[@Rozemarijn97]

Great, this is a very clear (you could say even slow) explanation of factor analysis, so it is perfect and easy to understand even if you are fairly new to the concept.

[@andrewlightfoot1560]

I'm usually alright with stats, but this definitely way over my head! I did like the explanation of how the factor analysis breaks down the relationships between variables though.

[@dominikar4969]

I have finished my Master’ and doing my PhD only thanks to these videos. Thank you Dr. Grande!

[@mks6148]

My Business Intelligence Professor in college was so passionate and well versed with SPSS! Great tool.

[@cherylchance904]

This video was very informative and helped to refresh my memory about how to interpret the data. Using 100 participants helped provide a better understanding of the different potential outcomes as well. I also appreciated the definition of the term factor loadings as I was not familiar with that term.

[@sammiejo6344]

The section in the book on Factor Analysis is very very brief. Dr. G does an excellent job providing detail explanation about Factor Analysis, and applying it with SPSS.

[@aud15chou80]

A Od I agree very detail explaination

[@MahtabAlam-uf8db]

This must be the third or fourth time I watched this video in the past 1 year and I think I am finally beginning to understand factor analysis. So, we use it to validate our self-made constructs (which I totally avoid).

[@joanagamagama5099]

Thank you so much!! Your clear and thorough explanation made my analysis for my master thesis not seem like a nightmare anymore!!

[@ammu9810]

I appreciate the step by step teaching going on in this video. The topic is difficult for me, but I feel confident that it I could accomplish it with the use of this video as a directive. Great video!!!

[@alexisklair3164]

This video was very clear and easy to understand. I appreciate the in depth explanation of factor analysis with a real example/data set that we can work through while understanding. It was easy to see the real world application for using this function. This was my first experience with spss, and have mainly used excel. This is the first time seeing a correlation matrix like this, although it was easier to understand when dr G went through and explain what to look for when reading the matrix. A good reminder about what constitutes a strong and weak correlation. I also learned about the determinant which I never knew before. Good video!

[@nilanjanNM37]

The video is immensely helpful Dr. Grande.....

[@Kryptic_Karma]

Woah. Didn't realize you made these types of videos. Currently using SPSS to run a few analyses on different factors that are correlated with a person's expectancy of success so that I can include the information on a report.

[@angiemorales8481]

The video was very clear and easy to follow. I did watch it several times and I am still not 100% percent sure if I have truly grasped the whole concept. It would be interesting to have a hands on approach which might help make the information click.

[@Asher.slay1]

I wish this guy was my lecturer... Explanation was better than my university!

[@spk.777]

No words to say thanks to such a wonderful teacher in you sir

[@amandayarn5160]

In past videos using excel, I was better able to understand concepts and equations because I could physically replicate what you were doing in my own excel sheet. Since I do not have SPSS, it was harder for me to wrap my brain around. I think the video was very informative but, I am going to have to watch it a few more times!

[@alexisklair3164]

I agree that it was hard to understand with no previous knowledge of spss, and not being able to follow along on my own (dont have access to spss). I think it was helpful and clear to understand the steps, however i dont know that I fully understand the subcomponents/terms within each tap/step. will definitely watch again,as you said

[@caitlinfields3175]

This was a good video to have visibility on how factor analysis actually works. Although, the specific on how to do this is quite confusing, this video provides a general idea of how factor analysis comes together. It was interesting to see how to identify the correlations between items. I will need to watch this video a few more times to learn how to do this on my own.

[@boakyethomas5678]

This is really really good. Please, I need your clarification as to whether this is a confirmatory or exploratory factor analysis.

[@tomast1323]

Me too lol.

[@reggierosario4708]

It was certainly helpful, Dr. Grande ! Thanks a ton !!

[@brainactivity737]

Update: thanks for the like Dr. Todd. I've learned a lot from you videos about the Big Five Personality. However, I would still prefer if you spoke a bit louder and showed more enthusiasm while explaining to make the learning experience more engaging and enjoyable. Thanks! A very good explanation but I wish if you spoke a bit louder.

[@jemgem9593]

Thank you Dr Grande 💙 I'm considering doing a f a of my mock psychometric scale data set for my MSc coursework x

[@raymondschenk9964]

Excellent primer! You helped me decode this process in a very meaningful manner.

[@pedro-ivannavarronaranjo6682]

Great video, clear ideas and step-by-step process to perform and understand factor analysis

[@georgefearn8079]

This is the only aay I have been able to understand this topic - thanks!!

[@DrGrande]

You're welcome, thanks for watching -

[@tahseenmirza1482]

@@DrGrande can i get your email ? i have some questions

[@brittanyrio3619]

I like this video because it does take everything step-by-step. It is a bit hard for me to follow along however, because I am not familiar with SPSS. Overall can't help but feel like hoping I won't ever have to use this! I do, however, understand that this is a way to look at variables, and understand the purpose of using it in research. A helpful tool for those who know how to use it.

[@8shelbyg]

I agree about the SPSS. It is kind of a complicated program and not really too similar to anything else most people use, so I think this kind of video can be hard to follow because if you have never practiced much with SPSS, there is no foundation, so it can be hard to follow.

[@alexisklair3164]

I agree. the step by step is helpful but darn is still stuff complicated sometimes. this was the first time I had learned this in depth and feel like i understand factor analysis a little more, but think that I am still not understanding some of the terms/constructs within each step/tab that he did.

[@nickberenato3131]

Yes Brittany and Alexis, Dr. Grande makes it sound so easy and I still found this video hard to follow. I do understand factor analysis a little more also but think I need to look at the other video he suggested.

[@juliecampana2860]

Absolutely Brittany. For those who have used this tool before, I'm sure this analysis makes a lot of sense. Unfortunately, for the rest of us, the configurations of the data and how to use data with this program seem really confusing.

[@angiemorales8481]

I agree because I am not familiar with SPSS either but the video did an excellent job of going over the information step by step.

[@aud15chou80]

Great step by step description of how to use SPSS, Well explained.

[@genevabarnes7402]

I really enjoyed the step by step information that was provided. And I have worked in Excel quite a bit. The SPSS to compute factor analysis looks extremely challenging. I am definitely going to have to watch this several times to maybe get some kind of understanding from it.

[@andrewr6433]

Yeah the format of being step by step in this video was very helpful. I do not feel like I missed a step or that he went too fast for me to follow.

[@izzadurrabajerai7234]

I know your name is Dr. Grande, but at this point, I owe you Starbucks Trenta big time! Thanks for this!! Great help with my SPSS practicals! :)

[@ElenaRox1994]

You saved my coursework! Thank you!!!

[@DrGrande]

You're welcome!

[@icestarzzz91]

Thank you for this video! It just reduced my fear of not being able to do this !!

[@DrGrande]

You're welcome and thank you for watching -

[@Anesidemus]

Many thanks for posting this video. Very easy to understand and helped me prepare.

[@Gshotpictures]

A lot of information to digest, I will have to watch this quite a few times to get a clear understanding.

[@rachelhemming15]

Fantastic explanation. Much better than uni

[@mmolavi1663]

Thanks a lot Dr. Grande. Useful explanation.

[@ushalincoln2546]

Though I would probably have to watch this clip numerous time if I were to run a factor analysis however, this clip does make a lot of sense of how one would use it to see how variable relate to each other. This concept would probably be very useful it you were looking at numerous variable in a study and wanted to see how each of them related .

[@alexdeloach6472]

What I like most about incorporating these videos into our class is that we can go back and rewatch them. It has definitely proved helpful for me numerous times. This video was easy to understand and detailed.

[@CampfireHeadphase]

I think it's safe to say that Dr. Todd is the real MVP

[@yedidenizkartal8119]

thanks for useful explanations Dr.Grande, but the sound level is terrible, ı can hardly hear.

[@AllinOne-cr2cs]

i'm also

[@Cutenini779]

Hi doctor Ur videos are really very helpful. Plz improve Voice quality....very to listen

[@januneupane7736]

Thanks Dr.Todd for your well interpretation

[@remigiusdemby7433]

This is quite detailed and useful in running factor analysis.

[@robertrobertsjr.2245]

In this video, I understand what Dr. G. is taking about, but I would need quite a bid of practice to completely understand how to compute the data. My concern is if I would have to compute factor Analysis using SPSS. The step by step procedure was good.

[@MariAvEuphoria]

Many many many thnx from Russia to U !

[@saiko-md1fm]

Me watching tutorials on youtube the night before the exam cause i understood nothing in class 👁️👄👁️ Thanks, Dr. Grande!

[@norsuhaida1]

do continue producing videos like this. thank you for your effort. help me alot!

[@shaekazi7016]

Hi Dr. Grande. First things first. I thought you should know that I got a 1st on my quantitative research because of your videos! So thank you very much for putting these up, with them I wouldn't have understood the numbers that my quantitative tests gave me in my project so THANK YOU! Secondly is there any way you could explain to me what Factor Analysis is. I've tried everything to get it and I'm not sure at all to be honest. What does it mean to see how the factors load together. What is a factor exactly?

[@moltobhai]

Thanks for the video. This will certainly be helpful for my exam tomorrow. But, I have one question... not sure if its too obvious or "too wrong"... after I group the variables in factors how do I assign values to these factors, as on my survey I had collected data for the variables, not the factors? Or is my line of thinking absolutely wrong in this concept?

[@buakaw]

Thank you. this really helped me with the understanding of factor analasis

[@danielamoore1412]

The book barely talked about factor analyzes, so I appreciate this video. I must say tho that I am very lost in this. I will certainly need to watch this video again. I still do not understand how this factor analysis is done... :(

[@jessicamcnemar182]

I am with you on this one Danni! This video presented many things that were not in the text. I feel like I need a whole class to go over these things and understand them.

[@andrewlightfoot1560]

It is nice to have these videos supplement what is covered in the texts.

[@khaophonephonemany8968]

Hi! Dr. Grande, I just wonder where did you get the information about the multicollinearity at .8 and above from? Thank you so much for your advise.

[@daiveellis1]

Am I right in thinking that this is an example of Exploratory Factor Analysis (because nowhere does he tell SPSS that 1-5 are meant to be one factor etc)? And not Comfirmatory Factor Analysis.

[@deepikavashishtha8075]

Thank you Sir. I have a query. What does Component plot in rotated space denote in spss? Thanks

[@talhaiftikhar6195]

Please also add the rotated component matrix that also makes sense how to handle it. Thanks Dr.

[@samesbutt1]

Hello Dr I am really pleased to see your informative lectures. I have a question regarding the cut off value for correlation matrix determinant which is said to be 0.0001 in this video. How you can determine that cut off value. Second, your video is lacking information on the interpretation of the correlation (Sig-1 tailed) test scores. if 0.05 is the P value than the assumption we have is the P value less than 0.05 we will reject the null hypothesis (A=B) which is in contrast to the correlation results. for example two of my variables have a value of 0.754 and P value 0.000. With correlation, this shows two variables are 75% resembling each other and P value is saying they are significantly not equal. Please elaborate it for my understanding. Thanks Salman

[@biseratzelalem8996]

hi DOCTOR TODD HOW CAN I SUMMERIZE IF ONE indepedent varable more than two dimensions ? how i can anailze it?

[@josievor7661]

I am not sure if this a stupid question but our professor wants us two report the factor structure. Is the correlation matrix the same as the factor structure?

[@jamesmoore2070]

Can you post the data set so we can follow along in the video?

[@kendallwilson7319]

While these videos are very informative and really do help me understand these concepts better, the videos in SPSS are a bit harder for me to wrap my mind around because I have never used SPSS and I can’t apply this information as well as I can to excel since I have used that program and can practice in it. The video still helps me understand the concept though because he does explain all of the variables and processes in so much depth. Especially when you see the outputs and he explains the results.

[@angeliquecastro2209]

Like you, the moment that I saw this video was with SPSS, I did not want to think about it. I do agree that it helps explain the information better, and I also like your counterpoint about excel and not having the SPSS technology; it would only help me if I had a version of the software as well.

[@sammiejo6344]

I too agree. I think it would help if we were doing the steps ourselves as Dr. G is explaining it. He makes it look really easy, but there are so many components to it, that it can be a bit too much.

[@danielamoore1412]

A Od I agree. I think it would help if we had lectures in class at least up till chapter 6 (cause they are more stats based) so that we could try doing things WITH Dr. Grande. I don't like this kinda class to be online or "independent learning". Sometimes I get frustrated because I do not understand the material... I barely followed this video.

[@laurashine7134]

The text book only briefly touched on factor analysis but this video did take the concept to another level. I have never used SPSS but watching the step by step example that was delivered was helpful.

[@robertrobertsjr.2245]

Kendall, I agree with you about how informative this video is and also understanding how to get the results using SPSS. I think would help if we did some examples in class, so that we could see in done in front of us. Practice, practice, practice is what I would have to do to learn.

[@kossonouprunelle7576]

Sorry, I have both nominal and ordinal variable in my questionnaire, i took items from previous stuies and translate from english to french. Which one should i choose between EFA and CFA to check reliability and validity of my questionnaire? or should i use both of them? Thanks for your reply.

[@ELdASenSei]

9:00 became interesting for me I am having the issue where the determinant is ,000. but dont know if that is below ,00001. And if the items are highly uncorrelated with eachother this will mean that I have a problem as it seems that I have a low reliability with these items. Furthermore, I am not getting any info on KMO and Barlett's test. I did selected it in descriptives.

[@gracekainessie7629]

Can I use a dataset with multiple gaps to conduct factor analysis?

[@kostasandrio3069]

How do you make the correlation matrix for the extracted factors?How do you create the values for the new variables that you extract?

[@jessicamcnemar182]

There were several things in this video that I would need to explore further to understand the analysis of the results in this video. I think I have a basic understanding of what a factor analysis is but I feel like I would need an entire class to go over the concepts in this video especially pertaining to the different results and what they mean.

[@caitlinfields3175]

I agree Jessica. I think it would be very helpful to break this down further in class to fully have a grasp of this.

[@dawnb.9315]

I agree Jess. I am a little confused. Would like to go over this in class so we could ask questions.

[@vidaadansi5633]

I agree Jess. It will be easy to grasp when practiced in class.

[@nghialuu2997]

please continue with how we can generate factors scores. I'm struggling with Refined and Non-refined method. how the results from different methods can be used for? Refined methods include Regression, and.... can be seen in SPSS. Where the non-refined methods be defined in SPSS? Thank you very much.

[@samuelvanlalruatakawlni6207]

Suppose on a 10 item scale (i.e a subscale of a larger scale), 4 components was extracted with diverse loadings (widely spread) among the items. Shall i retain the original items or remove those items that are alienated from others. Please

[@ojl6475]

I have a question. When I do oblime rotation, do I have to choose "Maximum likelihood" method or still "Principal components" method?

[@juajune5519]

Hello Dr Todd Grande! I just conducted this Factor Analysis and I ended up with 3 components. However, I need to measure the effects on this variable, and measuring the effect this variable has on another- so having 1 would be a lot better. Do you know what I can do to fix this without deleting too many items?

[@AGRONInfoTech]

Nicely explained. Thanks

[@slumpighet]

I don't know why people complain that factor analysis is hard. It sure is easy without crossloadings! ;)

[@RohitYadav-qh5me]

can we take satisfaction as a factor in factor analysis? im trying to find out the factors which satisfy customer in buying a product...

[@kalyanchowdhury6588]

Sir suppose I have develop a scale.....And done pilot study....Now exploratory factor analysis should be done with pilot data or with final data set??.Pls reply.

[@kshitijjadhav1171]

Very nice explanatory video. I was just wondering if all the variables load on only 1 factor, which means that only 1 factor is extracted, what does it mean?

[@rzlnib]

+Kshitij Jadhav It means what you said. There is only one factor that explains the outcome of the item.

[@lindafuchs7866]

thanks for the video! do i need to take the logs from the original data before starting? and then but the log at "item 1" etc or do i just use the original data that i collected?

[@MattChester-x5x]

What can I do to address a very low determinant? 1.861E-7

[@deltami2562]

Hi, thank you for your video. I have a question, concerning the extraction of variables and observations on the same plane! How can I do this please?

[@javeda]

Dear Dr. Grande, Can we run moderation and mediation analysis with a dichotomous binary variable as an outcome variable?

[@heather7927]

I thought this was a great video in showing the groupings together and the similar factors to stick together on the similar construct.

[@shamisoguvava5458]

Can I ask on fixed numbers of factors how do I count the factors are there 2 factors or 10

[@sciencegalxx]

Hi. My topic is on A Study of Budget Slack and the Influence of Budget Participation on Budget Slack. I would like to do hypothesis testing using factor analysis. My hypothesis are: H1 : Managers' perceptions of budgetary participation and distributive fairness are positively related. H2 : Managers' perceptions of budgetary participation and procedural fairness are positively related. H3 : Distributive fairness is positively related to managerial trust H4 : Procedural fairness is positively related to managerial trust H5 : Managerial trust is positively related to budget goal commitment H6 : Budget goal commitment is negatively associated with managers' propensity to create slack. May I know what type of factor analysis is suitable? Exploratory or confirmatory factor analysis? May I know any other statistical methods that are appropriate to conduct hypothesis testing? Thanks.

[@ashutoshpandey9105]

What if i have Yes/No data

[@katedawson5935]

Really helpful. Thank you.

[@rangamunasinghe9086]

Im doing a study on employee dissatisfaction level and early retirement. there are main contributory factors and under which several questions. example factor A got 6 questions and factor B got 4 questions like wise. Is the method you shown here applicable to analyze my questions

[@harshithanandu7454]

ranga munasinghe even I'm doing satisfaction level.. Can somebody help to in factory analysis?

[@tusharvchaudhari]

Sir My correlation matrix is stating that this matrix is not positive definite What should I do

[@suchitagurjar237]

Sir, where can I get the data sets you use in your videos?

[@norakocski1370]

Thank you so much, this explanation helped a lot! :)

[@DrGrande]

You're welcome - thanks for watching.

[@mickeyburgess7164]

Very helpful; Thanks Dr. Grande.

[@DrGrande]

Thank you!

[@ธนิกากรีธาพล-ล8ล]

Thank you so much. It's easy to understand.

[@DrGrande]

I'm glad you found the video useful. Thanks for watching.

[@victorilles1308]

Hello Todd, thanks for the great explaining! I have a further question, that maybe you could help me with. How do I know from which results, whether I have to exclude a variable? Thanks, Victor

[@nihonbunka]

I would like to know too.

[@chowdhuryrabbi7527]

I am trying to do a moderation analysis by using process v3.3. I have 3 moderators, 3 in dependent variables and a dependent variable. But in the output it doesn't give me the conditional statistics. What could be the reason? And also for 1 independent variable it doesn't give me the result at all. In the out put it says there is an error and calculation stopped. Could anyone say what is the reason and what am I doing wrong? I will really appreciate.

[@tanishqgupta1191]

from where can i have this dataset?

[@johnseth3132]

hello doc, it appears SPSS 26 produces different results

[@Josyaenima]

Muchas gracias, funciones super bien!!!!

[@fernandojackson7207]

Prof. Grande:a technical question: how do we know that the order of the outputs is the same as the order in which we did the input? I used a file from Excel with 9 columns. Does the output , specifically the "Variance Explained" part, appear in the same order that the columns appear?

[@albiner1999]

When you open Factor Analysis in spss (as in the video), there is an option button, click on that button. You shall be presented with coefficient display format in which there are tick buttons. Tick Sorted by size- the variables would then be displayed from highest to lowest. Also another tick button Supress absolute values- place 0.4 in the space provided and tick that too. If you do this, then you don't have to scan all the variables to seek out which belong to the respective components as only those above 0.4 would be displayed.

[@bsaragiotto]

Thanks! Very useful!

[@bhupenderkumarsom1975]

Please mention the scale on which data is collected. I am hardly finding any video checking validity for 5 point Likert Scale. Kindly, help

[@vinithraguraman]

Edit: I saw your recent videos, Audio was loud enough on those vids. Why you English guys speak on so low volume (decibel)? I turned to 100% volume still can't get the volume. Some other KZbin channels are louder enough.

[@vinithraguraman]

Sorry for criticising, But your content was great and we got distrupt by audio loudness/clarity.

[@rawaaalhlwaa2321]

How can I download the data set?

[@seemalrashid6268]

Please upload any easy video for gap analysis