Σύγκριση μεθόδων

	Ανάπτυξη σύντομης κλίμακας	Διερευνητική Ανάλυση Παραγόντων (EFA)
Πεδίο	Ψυχομετρία	Στατιστική
Οικογένεια	Latent structure	Latent structure
Έτος προέλευσης	1990s–2000s	—
Δημιουργός	Multiple contributors; foundational critique by Smith, McCarthy & Anderson (2000); practical guidance by Stanton et al. (2002)	—
Τύπος	Scale development methodology	Latent variable / dimension reduction
Θεμελιώδης πηγή	Stanton, J. M., Sinar, E. F., Balzer, W. K., & Smith, P. C. (2002). Issues and strategies for reducing the length of self-report scales. Personnel Psychology, 55(1), 167–194.	Fabrigar, L. R., Wegener, D. T., MacCallum, R. C. & Strahan, E. J. (1999). Evaluating the use of exploratory factor analysis in psychological research. Psychological Methods, 4(3), 272–299.
Εναλλακτικές ονομασίες	scale abbreviation, abbreviated scale development, short-scale construction, item reduction methodology	common factor analysis, açımlayıcı faktör analizi, factor analysis
Συναφείς	5	4
Σύνοψη	Short-form scale development is the systematic process of reducing a full-length psychological scale to a smaller subset of items while preserving the construct validity, reliability, and measurement properties of the original instrument. It is widely used when administration burden must be minimised without sacrificing psychometric quality.	Exploratory factor analysis reduces a large set of observed variables into a smaller number of latent common factors. It is widely used in scale development and psychometrics to uncover the dimensional structure that underlies a set of correlated items, without specifying that structure in advance.