The amount of variance a variable shares with all other variables included in the factor analysis is referred to as ________.
A)communality
B)total variance
C)shared variance
D)percentage of variance

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Communality is the amount of variance a variable shares with all other variables included in the factor analysis. It represents the common variance between the variable and all other variables in the analysis. This value ranges between 0 and 1, with 1 indicating that all of the variable's variance is shared with other variables, and 0 indicating that none of the variance is shared.

The Amount of Variance a Variable Shares with All Other