Table 3.
Item-total item correlation and alpha-coefficients if deleted and scale statistics for three factors identified in factor analysis
| Item |
Factor 1: Female-specific Moral Stigma |
Factor 2: Social Stigma |
Factor 3: Internal stigma |
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| r(i-t) | α(d) | r(i-t) | α(d) | r(i-t) | α(d) | |
| 1. Dirty | 0.547 | 0.652 | ||||
| 2. Violated | 0.457 | 0.703 | ||||
| 5. Damaged goods | 0.459 | 0.719 | ||||
| 7. Guilty | 0.473 | 0.692 | ||||
| 8. Embarrassed | 0.591 | 0.623 | ||||
| 9. Clinic discretion* | 0.432 | 0.667 | ||||
| 10. Staff discretion* | 0.413 | 0.673 | ||||
| 11. Sleeps around | 0.598 | 0.632 | ||||
| 12. Should know better | 0.563 | 0.658 | ||||
| 13. Isn't careful | 0.478 | 0.697 | ||||
| 14. Bad person | 0.398 | 0.676 | ||||
| 15. Community gossip | 0.443 | 0.664 | ||||
| 16. Staff morals | 0.519 | 0.639 | ||||
| 18. Stupid | 0.404 | 0.675 | ||||
| N | 120 | 116 | 122 | |||
| Alpha Co-efficient | 0.737 | 0.705 | 0.729 | |||
| Mean | 3.77 | 5.16 | 6.59 | |||
| SD | 2.52 | 1.81 | 2.68 | |||
*As these items may refer to perceptions of a specific clinic, an alternative Cronbach's alpha score for the social stigma scale, eliminating these two items would be 0.647; other factors were not affected by removal of these items. Note: item 10 score was reversed for factor analysis.