The phrase "as general factor" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing theories or concepts that pertain to a broad or overarching element influencing various outcomes or behaviors.
Example: "The study aimed to identify intelligence as a general factor that affects academic performance across different subjects."
Alternatives: "as a broad factor" or "as an overarching factor".
This resulted in a space-resolved data set that allows us to identify fish density, fish contact surface area, and distance from inlet as general factors controlling PSD.
During the past decades, a growing body of evidence has accumulated showing that psychosocial stress is associated with adverse health outcomes, especially coronary heart disease (CHD). 1 Psychosocial stress as a risk factor has been studied as a general factor as well as linked to the workplace.
Revelle's VSS criterion, as well as indexes of general factor saturation, such as Revelle's β and McDonald's ωH, indicated that the OAV items could be combined on an even higher level of the construct hierarchy to form a total scale.
Further, of all the AS factors, the general factor was most associated with NA.
Charles Spearman, bearing in mind the influential theory that he originated of conceiving intelligence as made up of a "general factor" as well as "special factors" more specific to particular mental tasks, may have summed up the research the best when he wrote in 1927, "Every normal man, woman, and child is, then, a genius at something, as well as an idiot at something".
Martin [ 20] deems that we have to take the negative linguistic form of some items into consideration either as a general factor influencing the factors of anxiety and depression, or as a supplementary factor.
The bifactor model with an underlying distress factor as a general factor explained covariance among depression, anxiety and somatic symptoms [ 15].
Goldberg et al. described distress as a general factor of depression and anxiety, representing the overall severity of the disorder [ 18].
New evidences of poor factor-based discriminant validity; followed by replicating and extending the models proposed here; along with theory-based external forms of construct validation studies using the EPDS as a general factor (or perhaps its 10-item raw score equivalent) should be a constructive way forward.
It is obvious that experiences vary according to a number of different axes not only along the commonly cited axes of social class, sexual orientation, race/ethnicity and gender but also in terms of individual variation as well as other general factors.
