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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Res Pers. 2013 May 9;47(5):493–504. doi: 10.1016/j.jrp.2013.04.012

Figure 1.

Figure 1

An example of an exploratory hierarchical solution versus a exploratory bifactor solution of the Digman median correlations. The exploratory procedure allows some small cross loadings between the two lower level factors and the tests. When using a confirmatory factor model for the hierarchical model, the loadings are .61, .56, and .72 for the first factor and .55 and .76 for the second factor with general factor loadings of .60. The confirmatory bifactor model produces general factor loadings of .44, .20, .48, .32 and .45 for C, A, ES, O, and E respectively. This leads to an ωhvalue of .36. All analyses done using the psych and sem packages in R.