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Yes you can use EFA to extract of underlying factors of a test. But this is completely different from construct validity.
By the way, I think it depends on your research goals. If you want to explain a dependent variable b…
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none of them. I think you don't have to use EFA when you don't have any theoretical model for your indicators. I recommend you try the CFA (confirmatory factor analysis) by Lisrel.
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