This week, you are interested in participant perceptions of their careers and so you have developed a 12-item scale, the Saxon Career Values Scale (SCVS)
and collected item responses from 100 working adults. Participants respond on a four-point scale – “0” indicating disagree up to “3” indicating agree. You
are interested in examining the factor structure of your newly developed scale.
Items on the Saxon Career Values Scale
Item#
Item Text
q01
I consider marriage and having a family to be more important than a career,
q02
To me, marriage and family are as important as having a career.
q03
I prefer to pursue my career without the distraction of marriage, children, or a household.
q04
I would rather have a career than a family.
q05
I often think about what type of job I’ll have 10 years from now.
q06
I could be happy without a career.
q07
I would feel unfulfilled without a career.
q08
I don’t need to have a career to be fulfilled.
q09
I would leave my career to raise my children.
q10
Having a career would interfere with my family responsibilities.
q11
Planning for and succeeding in a career is one of my primary goals.
q12
I consider myself to be very career-minded.
Note: Table 1 is an excerpt from Green, S. B., & Salkind, N. J. (2014). Using SPSS for Windows and Macintosh: Analyzing and understanding data (7th ed.).
Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson.
Factor Analysis
Describe what a factor analysis, the different types, and the steps in the factor analysis process.
Open data file Data Week 10.sav found in your weekly resources and conduct a factor analysis. Provide justification for your use of analysis (i.e., principal
components versus principal factors).
Identify how many factors underlie the SCVS scree plot.
Identify how many factors underlie the SCVS based on the eigenvalue –greater-than-one criterion.
Write your results section using APA style.
Length: 3-5 pages, not including title or reference page
