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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Res Nurs Health. 2014 Oct 16;37(6):524–537. doi: 10.1002/nur.21623

Table 3.

Self-Care Maintenance Scale: Correlations and Descriptors of Distribution and Normality (N = 549)

Item 1 Item 2 Item 3 Item 4 Item 5 Item 6 Item 7 Item 8 Item 9 M SD S K
Item 1 -- 3.05 1.22 −0.65 −0.94
Item 2 .40 -- 3.02 1.39 −0.69 −0.91
Item 3 .18 .32 -- 3.36 0.70 −1.33 0.76
Item 4 .19 .01 .03 -- 2.70 0.97 −0.11 −1.10
Item 5 .18 .17 .24 −.06 -- 3.43 0.39 −1.23 0.67
Item 6 .26 .20 .16 .14 .13 -- 3.20 0.77 −0.87 −0.34
Item 7 .18 .06 .07 .62 −.01 .13 -- 2.10 1.17 0.48 −0.99
Item 8 .02 .04 .05 .15 .00 .06 .13 -- 3.63 0.17 −2.05 4.89
Item 9 .27 .30 .15 .06 .14 .49 .14 .02 -- 2.34 1.90 0.20 −1.45
Item 10 .15 .12 .22 .05 .19 .13 .11 .05 .09 3.30 2.01 −1.25 −0.27

Note. S = skewness; K = kurtosis. All correlations are statistically significant (p<.05) except those in italics.