Table 2 .
Self-esteem items and item bank parameters
| Item response theory calibration statistics |
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| Item ID | Response set | Item stem | Slope | Threshold 1 | Threshold 2 | Threshold 3 | Threshold 4 |
| SelfE_13 | a | I felt bad about myself. | 2.88369 | −2.09421 | −1.39942 | −0.50925 | 0.18300 |
| SelfE_10 | a | I've been unhappy with the person I've become since my injury. | 2.36523 | −2.16006 | −1.50417 | −0.71821 | −0.04493 |
| AltStem_NQSTG07 | a | Because of my injury, I felt embarrassed in social situations. | 2.58943 | −2.12140 | −1.45995 | −0.58047 | 0.04373 |
| AltStem_NQSTG12 | a | I am unhappy about how my injury affected my appearance. | 2.20770 | −1.46038 | −0.87027 | 0.02849 | 0.62986 |
| SelfE_27 | b | I had high self-esteem. | 2.03773 | −1.97060 | −1.17425 | −0.10977 | 0.85562 |
| SelfE_9 | a | Because of my injury, I worried about performing tasks in front of other people. | 2.12675 | −2.12899 | −1.35373 | −0.41048 | 0.20603 |
| SelfE_33 | b | I felt good about myself. | 2.46332 | −2.36479 | −1.46769 | −0.39789 | 0.62883 |
| SelfE_15 | a | I felt insecure. | 2.63998 | −2.33476 | −1.51394 | −0.52884 | 0.20976 |
| SelfE_25 | a | I felt invisible to other people. | 1.53538 | −3.93586 | −2.73207 | −1.12792 | −0.31595 |
| Self_23 | a | I was unhappy with the way my clothes fit me. | 1.28351 | −2.42998 | −1.57067 | −0.38942 | 0.33344 |
| SelfE_8 | a | I felt it was difficult to achieve goals I set for myself. | 1.87950 | −2.13671 | −1.27073 | 0.01359 | 0.72910 |
| SelfE_32 | b | I was comfortable with myself. | 2.14478 | −1.97928 | −1.27433 | −0.30659 | 0.65866 |
| SelfE_17 | b | I felt attractive. | 1.56495 | −1.74028 | −0.73346 | 0.55838 | 1.38189 |
| SelfE_18 | a | I was ashamed of my injury. | 2.48201 | −2.24720 | −1.77481 | −1.04727 | −0.55576 |
| SelfE_26 | a | I felt embarrassed about needing a bowel or bladder management program. | 1.68809 | −2.09160 | −1.49499 | −0.59452 | −0.02095 |
| SelfE_22 | a | I was unhappy with changes in my posture. | 1.38021 | −2.34324 | −1.22061 | −0.24168 | 0.38506 |
| AltStem_NQSTG17 | a | I felt embarrassed about my physical limitations. | 2.65439 | −2.09386 | −1.46426 | −0.50970 | 0.04897 |
| SelfE_7 | a | Because of my injury, I was unhappy with who I am. | 3.33880 | −2.03852 | −1.30383 | −0.54243 | −0.05638 |
| SelfE_12 | a | I felt inferior to my friends or family. | 2.64976 | −2.32666 | −1.70477 | −0.84988 | −0.32136 |
| AltStem_NQSTG20 | a | I tended to blame myself for my problems. | 1.45220 | −2.24114 | −1.47577 | −0.47925 | 0.19288 |
| SelfE_24 | a | I felt I was no longer a "whole person". | 2.68332 | −1.73861 | −1.23531 | −0.50265 | −0.00837 |
| SelfE_14 | a | I had poor self-esteem. | 3.74315 | −2.07225 | −1.34651 | −0.52923 | 0.06185 |
| SelfE_20 | a | I always compared myself to people who have not been injured. | 1.78641 | −2.10016 | −1.40414 | −0.44759 | 0.17593 |
NOTE: Context for all self-esteem items is ‘Lately’; Response set ‘a’ was: 5 = Never/4 = Rarely/3 = Sometimes/2 = Often/1 = Always; Response set ‘b’ is 1 = Never/2 = Rarely/3 = Sometimes/4 = Often/5 = Always.
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