Speed effect analysis using the CFA framework
- The paper outlines a method for investigating the speed effect due to a time limit in testing. It is assumed that the time limit enables latent processing speed to influence responses by causing omissions in the case of insufficient speed. Because of processing speed as additional latent source, the customary confirmatory factor model is enlarged by a second latent variable representing latent processing speed. For distinguishing this effect from other method effects, the factor loadings are fixed according to the cumulative normal distribution. With the second latent variable added, confirmatory factor analysis of reasoning data (N=518) including omissions because of a time limit yielded good model fit and discriminated the speed effect from other possible effects due to the item difficulty, the homogeneity of an item subset and the item positions. Because of the crucial role of the cumulative normal distribution for fixing the factor loadings a check of the normality assumption is also reported.
Author: | Karl Schweizer, Siegbert ReißORCiDGND, Xuezhu Ren, Tengfei Wang, Stefan Troche |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-488076 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00239 |
ISSN: | 2041-1723 |
Pubmed Id: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30837915 |
Parent Title (English): | Nature Communications |
Publisher: | Nature Publishing Group UK |
Place of publication: | [London] |
Contributor(s): | Alessandro Giuliani |
Document Type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Year of Completion: | 2019 |
Date of first Publication: | 2019/02/14 |
Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Release Date: | 2019/04/02 |
Tag: | model of measurement; normal distribution; omissions; processing speed; structural validity |
Volume: | 10 |
Issue: | Art. 239 |
Page Number: | 11 |
First Page: | 1 |
Last Page: | 11 |
Note: | Copyright © 2019 Schweizer, Reiß, Ren, Wang and Troche. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
HeBIS-PPN: | 448048892 |
Institutes: | Psychologie und Sportwissenschaften / Psychologie |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 1 Philosophie und Psychologie / 15 Psychologie / 150 Psychologie |
Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
Open-Access-Publikationsfonds: | Psychologie und Sportwissenschaften |
Licence (German): | Creative Commons - Namensnennung 4.0 |