Description of Catness Dataset The dataset I will be describing is called “Catness – how much cat are you? A Higher Order Confirmatory Factor Analysis” by Cao, Moldovanu, Naczenski, Udenaarden & Souama (2018). The researchers argued that there are certain characteristics shared by humans and cats, and decided to call these characteristics in humans “Catness”. Based on previous literature, they decided to create a questionnaire to measure the latent variable Catness using three lower-order latent variables: Independency, Self-Love and Chilling-ness. Each lower order variable had three indicating items, resulting in a total of 9 items. In the questionnaire, participants were asked to indicate the extent to which they agreed with each of the nine indicating items on a five-point Likert scale, ranging from 1 (strongly disagree) to 5 (strongly agree). Higher scores indicate higher Catness levels. In the final dataset, each Item corresponded to a variable, resulting in 9 items titled by item number. Items 1-3 corresponded to Independency; Item 1, 2 and 3 addressed the statement “I like doing things on my own”, “When fixing problems, I seek help from others” and “I do not let myself get influenced by others’ opinions”, respectively. Items 4-6 corresponded to Self-Love; Item 4, 5 and 5 addressed the statement “I like taking care about my appearance”, “I love to treat myself” and “I am critical towards myself”, respectively. Items 7-9 corresponded to Chillingness; Item 7, 8 and 9 addressed the statement “I do not worry about things that are out of my control”, “I do not get thrown off my balance very easily” and “I get stressed easily”, respectively. In addition to the items, the final dataset included the variables of participant number (Participant), date of starting the questionnaire (StartDate), date of completing the questionnaire (EndDate), status (Status), how much of the questionnaire was completed – assuming 0 is 0% complete and 100 is 100% complete (Progress), how long it took to complete the questionnaire in seconds (Duration), whether or not the questionnaire was completed (Finished), the date on which the questionnaire scores were recorded (RecordedDate), how the participant accessed the questionnaire (DistributionChannel), the language in which the participant took the questionnaire (UserLanguage), the gender of the participant (Gender), the age of the participant (Age), the nationality of the participant with 1 indicating European, 2 indicating American, 3 indicating Asian, 4 indicating African and 5 indicating Pacific (Nationality) and finally, whether or not the participant has/ has had a cat, with 1 corresponding to yes and 2 corresponding to no (CatOwner). There were 627 participants in total, who all took the questionnaire in April 2018. Some of the information for the variables was missing, however these were still included in the final dataset. Mean scores for the items are as follows: 3.97 for Item 1, 3.32 for Item 2, 2.87 for Item 3, 3.63 for Item 4, 3.76 for Item 5, 4.16 for Item 6, 2.73 for Item 7, 3.29 for Item 8 and 3.09 for Item 9. References Cao, C., Moldovanu, D., Naczenski, L., Oudenaarden, J., & Souama, C. (2018, May 8). Catness - how much cat are you? A Higher-Order Confirmatory Factor Analysis. Retrieved from osf.io/v78pw