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Outer loadings >1 in a CFA

Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2021 2:58 pm
by julia_0409
Hello,
I'm currently doing a CFA. When looking at the outer loadings of my items (for a reflective contstruct), I found one item having a loading bigger than 1 (>1).

What does this mean or why is it like this? Can I keep the item or do I have to delete it? Is there some way to get the loading below 1 (e.g. standardization or similar)?

Thanks very much for your help!
Julia

Re: Outer loadings >1 in a CFA

Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2021 8:31 am
by jmbecker
Are you running a PLS model or a LISREL/AMOS/MPLUS analysis?