Comments on the objective analysis of motivation and psychotherapy.
There are several important issues raised in the paper by Cattell and in the comments upon it: the empirical status of the Cattell factors; the experimental verification of factors; difficulties with confirmatory analysis and the value of P-analysis. The relevance of these points is explicated in this paper.
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Department of Psychology, Washington Singer Laboratory, University of Exeter, Devon, UK.
D001364:Awareness; D006801:Humans; D009042:Motivation; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D011581:Psychological Tests / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011589:Psychology, Experimental; D011594:Psychometrics; D011613:Psychotherapy; D014473:Unconscious, Psychology