objective: inconsistent results have been reported regarding the symptom dimensions relevant to psychosis in symptoms check list revised (scl90-r), i.e., “psychoticism” and “paranoid ideation”. therefore, some studies have suggested different factor structures for questions of these two dimensions, and proposed two newly defined dimensions of “schizotypal signs” and “schizophrenia nuclear sympt...

background: recent studies show cardiovascular disease (cvd) risk factors have the tendency to intermingle. integration between some biological and homodynamic risk factors have made the new hypothesis for etiology of cvds. the aim of this study was to determine the clustering pattern of metabolic variables and left ventricular (lv) mass among smoker and non-smoker individuals and the interrela...

Abstract Replicability has become a highly discussed topic in psychological research. The debates focus mainly on significance testing and confirmatory analyses, whereas exploratory analyses such as factor analysis are more or less ignored, although hardly any comparable impact entire research areas. Determining the correct number of factors for this is probably most crucial, yet ambiguous deci...