Table 3.

Cronbach’s α and Test–Retest Reliability of the SCBES

Items	Cronbach’s α Coefficient if the Item Deleted (n=2182)	Test-Retest Reliability, Intraclass Correlation Coefficient (n=220)
Item 1	0.807	0.821 (p<0.001)
Item 2	0.807	0.803 (p<0.001)
Item 3	0.794	0.801 (p<0.001)
Item 4	0.808	0.822 (p<0.001)
Item 5	0.807	0.806 (p<0.001)
Item 6	0.799	0.797 (p<0.001)
Item 7	0.798	0.800 (p<0.001)
Item 8	0.793	0.802 (p<0.001)
Item 9	0.797	0.779 (p<0.001)
Item 10	0.801	0.807 (p<0.001)
Item 11	0.795	0.810 (p<0.001)
Item 12	0.811	0.832 (p<0.001)
Item 13	0.808	0.813 (p<0.001)
Item 14	0.796	0.799 (p<0.001)
Item 15	0.798	0.801 (p<0.001)
Item 16	0.799	0.805 (p<0.001)
SCBES total	0.813	0.835 (p<0.001)

Abbreviation: SCBES, The Simplified Chinese version of BES.