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From:         Joy Coogan 
Subject: Re: Bi-polar factors - help needed
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Hi Louise

Once you have done the varimax rotation and saved the factors e.g. 1 1 2 =
3,
you then exit this part and go back to 5 (manual rotation) and then you =
can
remove positives from one and negatives from the other.  Then you go on =
to 7.


I hope this makes sense.

Joy



Dr Joy Coogan
Programme Leader for Extended Psychology
Admissions tutor for Undergraduate Psychology
APEL Coordinator for Psychology
PTR Book Review Editor

School of Psychology, AE3.32
University of East London
Romford Road, Stratford,
London, E15 4LZ
Tel:020 8223 4189


-----Original Message-----
From: Q Methodology Network [mailto:Q-METHOD  at LISTSERV.KENT.EDU] On =
Behalf Of
Louise Bryant
Sent: 04 June 2009 12:05
To: Q-METHOD@LISTSERV.KENT.EDU
Subject: Re: Bi-polar factors - help needed

Thanks Joy - I presume you then use the manual flagging option [F7] to =
remove
the negative exemplars from the 'positive pole' factor and the positive
exemplars from the 'negative pole' factor?

Louise=20


Dr Louise Bryant
Lecturer in the Psychology of Healthcare
University of Leeds
Leeds Institute of Health Sciences
Room 1.12, Charles Thackrah Building
101 Clarendon Road,=20
Woodhouse
Leeds LS2 9LJ
=20
tel: 0113 343 1882
fax: 0113 343 0850

-----Original Message-----
From: Q Methodology Network [mailto:Q-METHOD  at LISTSERV.KENT.EDU] On =
Behalf Of
Joy Coogan
Sent: 04 June 2009 10:38
To: Q-METHOD@LISTSERV.KENT.EDU
Subject: Re: Bi-polar factors - help needed

Hi Louise

If you use the F6 option, it allows you to save the factors in the way =
that
Stephen says as I have done it myself.  I am not sure how it works with =
the
F5 option, as I have not manually rotated them myself.

Regards

Joy

Dr Joy Coogan
Programme Leader for Extended Psychology Admissions tutor for =
Undergraduate
Psychology APEL Coordinator for Psychology PTR Book Review Editor

School of Psychology, AE3.32
University of East London
Romford Road, Stratford,
London, E15 4LZ
Tel:020 8223 4189

-----Original Message-----
From: Q Methodology Network [mailto:Q-METHOD  at LISTSERV.KENT.EDU] On =
Behalf Of
Louise Bryant
Sent: 04 June 2009 10:26
To: Q-METHOD@LISTSERV.KENT.EDU
Subject: Bi-polar factors - help needed

Dear List-members

We have some data where one of the factors is bi-polar (Factor 2 has =
four
exemplars, two of which are negative loadings).

I presume from this that the factor arrays for each pole need to be
calculated separately - otherwise the array won't make sense for that =
factor.

Having searched the archive I found that Stephen has provided a method =
for
doing this last year, but I can't make this work: The method was as =
follows:

"Do this by entering the QROT option (F5) within PQMethod.  Then press =
F8 to
get out of the file, whereupon you will be prompted to designate which
factors are to be retained.  Let's assume that are three factors (1, 2, =
and
3) and that factor 1 is the bipolar factor.  When asked which factors to =
be
retained, enter 1 1 2 3 (with spaces between); i.e., indicate that you =
will
to retain factor 1 twice.  Then press F9 to get out of the QROT phase.  =
Then
get right back into QROT (option F5) where you will now see that you =
have
four factors: 1, 2, 3, and 4, where factor 2 is now a duplicate of =
factor 1.
Then select the factor reflection option (is it F5?) and reflect factor =
2:
This will cause all factor loadings to be reversed for this factor, =
which
will cause factor 2 now to be the reverse of factor 1.  Then go into all =
of
the factors and select those Q sorts for flagging; then exit QROT (F9). =
"

When I have tried this using the new QROT program (i.e. when PQMehtod
switches to full screen) I am asked for the number of factors, not for =
the
factor numbers. If I don't use the new QROT program it appears you can =
only
choose two factors at a time - what am I doing wrong?

Thanks

Louise

Dr Louise Bryant
Lecturer in the Psychology of Healthcare University of Leeds Leeds =
Institute
of Health Sciences Room 1.12, Charles Thackrah Building
101 Clarendon Road,
Woodhouse
Leeds LS2 9LJ
=20
tel: 0113 343 1882
fax: 0113 343 0850