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Interpreting humor styles and visual aid

The study of factor loadings offered by our EFA models is a valuable tool for interpreting the various humor styles. Even more helpful is the guidance of the path diagram. In this exercise, you are asked to create, retrieve both f_hsq's factor loadings matrix and path diagram. Recall that the loaded f_hsq object represents an EFA model of 4 factors. Below are the questionnaire items as they were initially grouped, based on the type of humour that they encode:

affiliative: 'Q1', 'Q5', 'Q9', 'Q13', 'Q17', 'Q21', 'Q25', 'Q29' self-enhancing: 'Q2', 'Q6', 'Q10', 'Q14', 'Q18', 'Q22', 'Q26', 'Q30' aggressive: 'Q3', 'Q7', 'Q11', 'Q15', 'Q19', 'Q23', 'Q27', 'Q31' self-defeating: 'Q4', 'Q8', 'Q12', 'Q16', 'Q20', 'Q24', 'Q28', 'Q32'

Instructions
100 XP
  • Print out the loadings' matrix of f_hsq. Make sure all the values are displayed, no matter how small they are, by using the cut argument.
  • Draw a path diagram of the latent factors in f_hsq and their relationship to the observed measured characteristics.

Does the path diagram fit well with the initial questionnaire items' classification? In other words, do the responses reflect well the types of humour?