Factor analysis error

[laurenhosking]

I’m doing a factor analysis and I get an
ERROR: communality greater than one
What does this mean and can I fix it.
My number of factors is 4 I found this using kaisers criteria but now I’m thinking maybe it’ll work if I have 3 factors please help! Also I’ve done an orthogonal varimax rotation

[ballardw]

I can't help directly with a response to your question.

You can help someone who knows more about this by providing as a minimum the code that you ran that generated this error.

[SteveDenham]

Call for @PaigeMiller  - this seems like something up your alley.

I found the following link that points to the HAYWOOD option.  Note that a communality>1 means a negative error variance (Hah!), or at least negative eigenvalues.  Anyhow, you could try what is here on Peter Westfall's website 

http://westfall.ba.ttu.edu/ISQS6348/comments_on_heywood_case.htm#:~:text=The%20statement%20%22commun... 

SteveDenham