Table 2.
Exploratory factor analysis on measures of executive functioning from the AGN and VF tasks.
Measure |
Descriptive data (N=186) |
Factor Loadings |
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Mean (SD) | Range | Attention | Inhibitory control errors | Mental Generativity | Shifting costs | |
AGN: omissions (shift blocks) | 8.40 (6.78) | 33 | .99 | −.07 | .06 | −.05 |
AGN: Total omissions | 16.56 (13.02) | 66 | .99 | −.05 | .05 | −.05 |
AGN: commissions (shift blocks) | 10.30 (6.75) | 36 | −.04 | .98 | .04 | −.05 |
AGN: Total commissions | 19.62 (13.23) | 66 | −.06 | .98 | .04 | −.04 |
VF: repetitions | .42 (1.12) | 11 | .14 | .11 | .95 | .10 |
VF: correct responses | 27.06 (8.37) | 42 | −.39 | −.28 | .47 | −.20 |
AGN: shifting costs (msecs) | -11.65 (44.04) | 320.72 | −.09 | .03 | .06 | .75 |
VF: disallowed responses | .99 (1.78) | 12 | −.03 | .10 | .01 | −.69 |
Factor | Correlations among factors | |||||
Attention | ||||||
Inhibitory control errors | .05 | |||||
Mental generativity | −.14 | −.09 | ||||
Shifting costs | .06 | −.05 | −.07 |
The Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin measure verified the sampling adequacy for the analysis, KMO=.50. Bartlett's test of sphericity χ2 (28)=1070.45, p<.001 indicated that correlations between measures were sufficiently large for exploratory factor analysis; Loadings of .4 or more were considered informative.