The response variable in your first section of code is not the same as the response variable in the 2nd section of code. So why should they produce the same results?
Shouldn't the composite variable (1st section of code) and the factor score (immediately above) result in the same general description of my DV?
This is rather a bold statement, how would you really know? And it appears to be contradicted by the data. If it was true, if you could somehow KNOW that variable finmanagecomposite is essentially the same as variable finmanage, then why do the statistical analysis at all?
As a side issue, I find myself unclear as to how factor analysis helps here, to me it could harm the situation just as much as it could help — it could be adding noise to the variable finmanage that is not present in finmanagecomposite, as factor analysis is not designed to pick composite scores that are well predicted by your x-variables.
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