Methoden vergleichen

	Cronbachs Alpha für Kurzformen	Bestätigende Faktorenanalyse (CFA)
Fachgebiet	Psychometrie	Psychometrie
Familie	Latent structure	Latent structure
Entstehungsjahr	1951 (alpha); short-form practice codified 1980s–2000s	1969
Urheber	L. J. Cronbach (alpha); short-form application formalized across scale-abbreviation literature	Karl Gustav Jöreskog
Typ	Internal consistency reliability coefficient	Hypothesis-testing latent variable model
Wegweisende Quelle	Smith, G. T., McCarthy, D. M. & Anderson, K. G. (2000). On the sins of short-form development. Psychological Assessment, 12(1), 102–111.	Jöreskog, K. G. (1969). A general approach to confirmatory maximum likelihood factor analysis. Psychometrika, 34(2), 183–202.
Aliasnamen	abbreviated scale alpha, brief scale internal consistency, short-scale Cronbach's alpha, reduced-item alpha	CFA, confirmatory FA, measurement model, restricted factor analysis
Verwandt	4	4
Zusammenfassung	Short-form Cronbach's alpha quantifies the internal consistency reliability of an abbreviated version of a psychological scale. It applies Cronbach's alpha formula to a reduced item set, verifying that the shortened instrument retains sufficient reliability to support valid score interpretation in research and applied contexts.	Confirmatory factor analysis tests a researcher-specified factor structure against observed data. Unlike exploratory approaches, the researcher decides in advance which indicators load on which latent factor, and the model is evaluated by how closely the implied covariance matrix reproduces the sample covariance matrix. CFA is central to scale validation, construct validity assessment, and measurement invariance testing.