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.445
.444
Co
ordinat
or
.733
.614
.594
Guard
The variance explained by these four factors is in total 52% (respectively, 19, 14, 11 and 9%).
Factor I totals 10 items and a content analysis of it shows that the six highest loadings can be
associated with scouting. Seven items load on Factor II and five of them refer to
ambassadorial activities. Factor III with five items is more ambiguous: only two of them are
clearly associated with coordination, although with high loadings. Finally, the three items of
factor IV refer clearly to the guard role.
The factor structure together with the factor loadings above .40 are given in Table 1. Thus,
based on the content we can label those factors in the same way as Ancona did; i.e.
Ambassador, Coordinator, Scout and Guard, but the composition of the scales differs in both
solutions.
The cross-tabulation in Table 2 shows which items are kept in the same scale and which items
moved to which scale.
Table 2. Comparison of the Ancona factor structure and the own structure
ANCON
F I
Ambassador
OWN DATA
Item F II
(Ambassado
r)
1
3
7
9
13
14
15
17
19
22
23
24
X
X
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
X
F III
(Coordinato
r)
.
.
.X
.
.
X
.
.
.
.
.
.
F I
(Scout)
.
.
.
.
.
.
X
X
X
X
X
.
F IV
(Guard)
.
.
.
X
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.