{"id":5251,"date":"2026-03-13T12:15:31","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T11:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/?post_type=docs&#038;p=5251"},"modified":"2026-03-13T12:15:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T11:15:32","password":"","slug":"cross-loading-factor-analysis","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/glossary2\/cross-loading-factor-analysis\/","title":{"rendered":"Cross-loading (factor analysis)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>You&#8217;re only likely to see this in reports of exploratory factor analyses of measures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Details<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>The term is used when an item in a measure which is only supposed to reflect one of a number of presumed latent variables shows a meaningful loading (typically over .4 or sometimes .3) on another.  See the example of item 7 in my item here about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/glossary2\/factor-structure\/\">factor structure<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Try also<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/glossary2\/exploratory-factor-analysis-efa\/\">Exploratory Factor Analysis<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/glossary2\/factor-analysis\/\">Factor Analysis<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/Factor Analysis\">Factor Structure<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Chapters<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Not covered in the OMbook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Online resources<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>None likely from me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Dates<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>First created 13.iii.26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;re only likely to see this in reports of exploratory factor analyses of measures. Details The term is used when an item in a measure which is only supposed to reflect one of a number of presumed latent variables shows a meaningful loading (typically over .4 or sometimes .3) on another. See the example of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/glossary2\/cross-loading-factor-analysis\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cross-loading (factor analysis)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"doc_category":[],"glossaries":[],"doc_tag":[],"knowledge_base":[],"class_list":["post-5251","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry"],"year_month":"2026-04","word_count":86,"total_views":"54","reactions":{"happy":"0","normal":"0","sad":"0"},"author_info":{"name":"chris","author_nicename":"chris","author_url":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/author\/chris\/"},"doc_category_info":[],"doc_tag_info":[],"knowledge_base_info":[],"knowledge_base_slug":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/5251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5251"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/5251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5252,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/5251\/revisions\/5252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_category?post=5251"},{"taxonomy":"glossaries","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossaries?post=5251"},{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=5251"},{"taxonomy":"knowledge_base","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledge_base?post=5251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}