Table A4.
Means, standard deviations, and items of the modified Mini-Mental Adjustment to Cancer scale.
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| MMAC_1 | I am determined to do everything I can to beat this disease. | .203 | N | 4.32 | .93 | 4.22 | .93 |
| MMAC_2 | I am very optimistic. | .644 | Y | 3.98 | 1.11 | 3.88 | .99 |
| MMAC_3 | I feel completely at a loss about what to do. (Reverse coded) | .714 | Y | 4.09 | 1.17 | 4.46 | .78 |
| MMAC_4 | I feel there is nothing I can do to help myself. (Reverse coded) | .746 | Y | 4.13 | 1.19 | 4.50 | .83 |
| MMAC_5 | I suffer great anxiety about having cancer. (Reverse coded) | .781 | Y | 3.04 | 1.33 | 3.64 | 1.22 |
| MMAC_6 | I am apprehensive about my cancer progressing. (Reverse coded) | .641 | Y | 2.63 | 1.20 | 2.97 | 1.12 |
| MMAC_7 | I make a positive effort not to think about my cancer. | .003 | N | 3.60 | 1.22 | 3.15 | 1.21 |
| MMAC_8 | I distract myself when thoughts about my cancer come into my head. | −.045 | N | 3.12 | 1.43 | 2.86 | 1.20 |
| Mean composite score | 3.61 | .70 | 3.71 | .59 | |||
Note. All participants included in factor analysis. M = mean, SD = standard deviation. Y = yes, retained; N = not retained. Items with loadings < .60 were removed from the scale one at a time, with the lowest loading (item 7) removed first. Loadings were reassessed after each item was removed.