Table 5.
Assessment of the ICRE scale: principal components analysis.
| Dimension | Items |
Component |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
| 1. Self-efficacy | - I have the knowledge and skills to influence the community | 0.774 | ||||
| α = 0.883 | - I have the ability to impact my community in important ways | 0.771 | ||||
| - I have confidence in my capabilities to make needed changes in my community | 0.755 | |||||
| - I am able to affect the area in which I live | 0.743 | |||||
| - I can influence community members to take actions on important issues | 0.671 | |||||
| - I have the knowledge and skills to gather information relevant to my community | 0.647 | |||||
| - I know I can make a differences in my community | 0.561 | |||||
| 2. Intention | - I want to get involved in my community | 0.814 | ||||
| α = 0.834 | - I am willing to get involved in my community | 0.786 | ||||
| - I am going to get involved in my community | 0.759 | |||||
| - I intend to take action in my community | 0.603 | |||||
| 3. Participation | - I participate in community activities | 0.697 | ||||
| α = 0.808 | - I am involved in my community | 0.562 | ||||
| - I volunteer for community projects | 0.512 | |||||
| 4. Motivation | - I think it is important for me to get involved in my community | 0.558 | ||||
| α = 0.69 | - I feel that efforts to address community issues are worthwhile | 0.522 | ||||
| - I am motivated to get involved in my community | 0.508 | |||||
| 5. Critical awareness | - I think that the problems in my community are serious | 0.707 | ||||
| Excluded | - I pitch in when there is work to be done | 0.230 | 0.396 | 0.485 | 0.249 | 0.310 |
| - I feel that community issues are important | 0.136 | 0.374 | 0.406 | 0.462 | ||
| Explained variance of ICRE (%) | 20.37 | 16.96 | 110.97 | 70.22 | 60.39 | |
Extraction method: principal components analysis; rotation method: varimax with Kaiser Normalization.