title: Exploratory factor analysis of the Human Behavior Rating Scale: a rural population.
abstract: The construct validity of Eaves' Human Behavior Rating Scale (HBRS) was investigated. The HBRS is a scale with 91 Likert-type items designed to measure five factors: arousal (persistence and curiosity), affect (externalizing and internalizing), and cognition. Forty-four teachers of Grades 6, 7, and 8 from two low socioeconomic and rural southern counties completed the HBRS for 320 of their students. Three parcels were submitted for analysis for each of the five dimensions. A five-factor, then a two-factor, solution were analyzed using exploratory factor analysis. A principal-axis factor analysis was employed and an oblique promax rotation was applied. The results supported the five-factor solution with 90.2% of the total variance accounted for when compared to the two-factor solution which recovered 73.4% of the total variance. Intercorrelations between factors ranged from .15 to .76 for the five-factor solution.
authors.affiliation: Department of Teaching and Learning, Universityof Iowa, Iowa City, 52242-1529, USA. suzanne-woods-groves@uiowa.edu
authors.forename: Suzanne
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Woods-Groves
authors.forename: Ronald C
authors.initials: RC
authors.lastname: Eaves
authors.forename: Thomas O
authors.initials: TO
authors.lastname: Williams
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000339:Affect; D001143:Arousal; D002648:Child; D003071:Cognition; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D005178:Faculty; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012424:Rural Population; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires