Hi everyone,

I've been doing a EFA with ML extraction and Promax rotation, whereby three factors were extracted. For reporting the results, I was wondering whether to use the 'Initial Eigenvalues' or the 'Extracted Sums of Squared Loadings' (see file attached). On the one hand, initial Eigenvalues are the ones used for parallel analysis, but on the other hand - as least as far as I'm aware of - the cumulative % of variance explained that is reported is the one below 'Extracted Sums of Squared Loadings'.

Could someone please elaborate what those two mean and which one to choose? I'd highly appreciate your help.

Eva