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. 2021 Sep 14;12:710929. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.710929

Table 5.

Sources of variance in the 10 WISC-V primary subtests for the EFA sample (n=823) according to a SL-orthogonalized higher-order factor model with four first-order factors.

WISC-V subtest g F1 F2 F3 F4 h 2 u 2
b S 2 b S 2 b S 2 b S 2 b S 2
SI 0.629 0.396 0.422 0.178 0.055 0.003 0.099 0.010 0.016 0.000 0.574 0.426
VC 0.628 0.394 0.642 0.412 −0.026 0.001 −0.039 0.002 −0.004 0.000 0.807 0.193
BD 0.559 0.312 −0.002 0.000 0.472 0.223 0.020 0.000 0.035 0.001 0.535 0.465
VP 0.576 0.332 −0.003 0.000 0.549 0.301 −0.019 0.000 0.008 0.000 0.633 0.367
MR 0.512 0.262 −0.017 0.000 0.324 0.105 0.161 0.026 −0.029 0.001 0.367 0.633
FW 0.441 0.194 0.093 0.009 0.315 0.099 0.209 0.044 −0.028 0.001 0.294 0.706
DS 0.516 0.266 0.012 0.000 0.021 0.000 0.497 0.247 0.007 0.000 0.513 0.487
PS 0.440 0.194 −0.007 0.000 0.030 0.001 0.421 0.177 0.015 0.000 0.371 0.629
CD 0.578 0.334 −0.023 0.001 −0.082 0.007 0.109 0.011 0.563 0.317 0.651 0.349
SS 0.556 0.309 0.028 0.001 0.109 0.012 −0.109 0.011 0.492 0.242 0.551 0.449
Total S2 0.299 0.059 0.073 0.042 0.056 0.530 0.470
ECV 0.565 0.111 0.138 0.080 0.106
ω 0.883 0.814 0.766 0.612 0.750
ωHHS 0.737 0.340 0.297 0.293 0.348
Relative ω 0.835 0.417 0.387 0.480 0.464
H 0.815 0.479 0.486 0.352 0.439
PUC 0.800

SI = Similarities; VC = Vocabulary; BD = Block Design; VP = Visual Puzzles; MR = Matrix Reasoning; FW = Figure Weights; DS = Digit Span; PS = Picture Span; CD = Coding; and SS = Symbol Search. g, General Intelligence (second-order factor); F1, Verbal Comprehension (first-order factor); F2, Perceptual Reasoning (first-order factor); F3, Working Memory (first-order factor); and F4, Processing Speed (first-order factor). b, Factor Loading; S2, Explained Variance; h2, Communality; u2, Unique Variance; ECV, Explained Common Variance; ω, Omega Coefficient; ωH, Omega-Hierarchical Coefficient (general factor); ωHS, Omega-Hierarchical Coefficient (group factors); H, Replicability Index (construct reliability); and PUC, Percentage of Uncontaminated Correlations. Salient factor loadings (≥ 0.30) and variance estimates are indicated in bold numbers.