Psychometric Instruments: Response Scores vs. Factor-Analysis Loadings

Pure-psychometric perspective (cardiac coherence deliberately excluded): one instrument per x-axis position, two panels on separate y-scales. The top panel's RAW_SCORE (mostly 1-5 Likert, but not a uniform scale across instruments -- e.g. Positivity Ratio Scale runs 0-4) is a fundamentally different quantity from the bottom panel's factor loadings (-1 to 1, from GDX_PSY_PSYCHOMETRIC_PROPERTY), so each gets its own panel rather than one shared axis (the dual-axis anti-pattern) or an arbitrary indexed baseline (there is no natural "instrument zero" the way chart 1 has a BASELINE phase). Today only the Career Adapt-Abilities Scale has any EFA/CFA rows -- every other instrument's bottom-panel points are absent, not zero.

Response score -- mean RAW_SCORE from actual participant answers (each instrument's own scale) 2 2.5 3 3.5 4 4.5 Hardiness Student Engagement Scale Career Adapt-Abilities Scale Satisfaction With Life Scale Job Satisfaction Scale Positivity Ratio Scale Personal Satisfaction Perceived Control of Life Maslach Burnout Inventory - Student Survey (hypothesis - unconfirmed) Undocumented Organizational Block (hypothesis - an1-an11) Red Tape / Perceived Bureaucracy (hypothesis - red1-red5) Average raw score Factor-analysis loadings -- mean |loading| across items (-1 to 1 scale, a different quantity from the panel above) 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.8 Hardiness Student Engagement Scale Career Adapt-Abilities Scale Satisfaction With Life Scale Job Satisfaction Scale Positivity Ratio Scale Personal Satisfaction Perceived Control of Life Maslach Burnout Inventory - Student Survey (hypothesis - unconfirmed) Undocumented Organizational Block (hypothesis - an1-an11) Red Tape / Perceived Bureaucracy (hypothesis - red1-red5) Average |factor loading|
EFA (exploratory)
CFA (confirmatory)
InstrumentResponse scoreResponse NEFA loading (avg |value|)CFA loading (avg |value|)
Hardiness3.5412690.360.4
Student Engagement Scale2.8912690.580.68
Career Adapt-Abilities Scale4.0816920.370.65
Satisfaction With Life Scale3.614230.610.75
Job Satisfaction Scale3.794230.460.56
Positivity Ratio Scale2.168460.530.53
Personal Satisfaction3.91423——
Perceived Control of Life3.77423——
Maslach Burnout Inventory - Student Survey (hypothesis - unconfirmed)3.744230.370.52
Undocumented Organizational Block (hypothesis - an1-an11)3.416920.570.66
Red Tape / Perceived Bureaucracy (hypothesis - red1-red5)3.344220.770.76