Factor analysis on safety awareness in university research laboratories in Japan - OSHwiki | European Agency for Safety and Health at Work

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Introduction

Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) is one of the multivariate data analyses used for uncovering factors that constitute features of a scientific research laboratory such as individual characteristics or behavioral features. EFA is particularly useful with multi-item inventories designed to measure personality, attitudes, behavioral styles, cognitive schema and other multifaceted constructs of interest to clinical psychologists (Floyd, 1995). Since its initial development about a century ago (Spearman, 1904, 1927), EFA has been one of the most widely used statistical procedures not only in the psychology field but also in the fields of behavioral science and biology

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Author

AI SHUHARA

Department of Environment Systems, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa 277-8563 JAPAN

HITOSHI YAMAMOTO

Department for the Administration of Safety and Hygiene, Osaka University1-1 Yamada-oka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871 JAPAN

YOSHITO OSHIMA

Department of Environment Systems, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa 277-8563 JAPAN

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