negative outer loadings

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Ingrid Snijders
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negative outer loadings

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Hello, what does an indicator's negative outer loading imply? How to interpret and how to follow rules of thumb such as the threshold value of .60 (exploratory research)
janschreier
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Re: negative outer loadings

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Hi Ingrid,

could be that the scale of the indicators is reversed (e. g. all scales from 1 = good to 5= bad, and for those negative ones (5=good, and 1 = bad) or that you are having problems with multicollinarity (use the forum's search for that topic).

hope that helps!
Jan
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