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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Commun Methods Meas. 2011 Jan 1;5(2):126–145. doi: 10.1080/19312458.2011.568374

Table 3.

Factor Structure of Perception of Narrative Performance Scale

Item Descriptions Refuse Video Avoid Video

Interest Realism Identification Interest Realism Identification
The video was interesting .63 (.034) .81 (.023)
It’s easy to pay attention to the story .54 (.036) .77 (.029)
I was bored during the video .64 (.038) .58 (.035)

The video looked real to me .52 (.041) .66 (.031)
The story was believable .65 (.047) .80 (.030)
I could see kids getting into a situation like that .35 (.036) .46 (.041)

My best friends .87 (.018) .93 (.012)
My other friends .78 (.019) .85 (.015)
Me .86 (.018) .91 (.013)

α for scale .63 .52 .88 .75 .66 .92

Note. Factor coefficients in the table are standardized and the numbers in the parentheses are their standard errors.