Nediger and Chelladurai (1989) reported a principal components analysis of the Life Styles Inventory in a Canadian sample. They concluded that the solution did not exhibit the hypothesized circumplex pattern. A reanalysis of their intercorrelation matrix, using nonmetric multi-dimensional scaling, showed an almost perfect circumplex.
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