Table 4. Item/Subscale characteristics.
| Item No.* | Acceptance (response in %) | Mean (SD) (range 1–5) | Corrected item-total correlation subscales | Ceiling effect (%) | Floor effect (%) | Skew | Kurtosis |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Motivation | - 0.744 | 0.273 | |||||
| 42 | 99.5 | 4.58 (0.625) | 0.545 | 64.2 | 0.1 | - 1.527 | 2.704 |
| 12 | 99.9 | 4.67 (0.598) | 0.536 | 73.0 | 0.1 | - 1.867 | 3.613 |
| 64 | 98.5 | 3.74 (0.954) | 0.657 | 23.3 | 1.6 | - 0.409 | - 0.243 |
| 1 | 98.6 | 4.27 (0.801) | 0.606 | 46.5 | 0.0 | - 0.787 | - 0.247 |
| 17 | 99.5 | 3.86 (0.961) | 0.633 | 29.1 | 1.2 | - 0.531 | - 0.284 |
| 29 | 99.7 | 4.02 (0.978) | 0.527 | 36.3 | 2.0 | - 0.965 | 0.561 |
| 10 | 99.7 | 4.43 (0.706) | 0.489 | 53.4 | 0.1 | - 1.202 | 1.518 |
| 38 | 99.3 | 3.78 (1.119) | 0.500 | 30.9 | 3.4 | - 0.683 | - 0.403 |
| 58 | 98.4 | 3.90 (0.825) | 0.515 | 24.1 | 0.1 | - 0.358 | - 0.371 |
| Attitudes | - 0.094 | -0.160 | |||||
| 8 | 99.9 | 2.69 (1.097) | 0.609 | 5.7 | 14.9 | 0.211 | - 0.625 |
| 43 | 98.8 | 2.78 (0.943) | 0.630 | 5.6 | 7.2 | 0.326 | 0.133 |
| 60 | 95.3 | 3.81 (0.906) | 0.560 | 21.3 | 1.6 | - 0.660 | 0.377 |
| 21 | 94.0 | 3.91 (0.938) | 0.548 | 5.7 | 3.4 | - 0.205 | - 0.393 |
| Skills | - 0.317 | -0.030 | |||||
| 50 | 92.1 | 3.64 (0.822) | 0.577 | 11.5 | 0.3 | - 0.333 | - 0.209 |
| 5 | 91.9 | 3.48 (1.058) | 0.373 | 15.7 | 3.3 | - 0.370 | - 0.551 |
| 44 | 88.8 | 3.67 (0.899) | 0.454 | 13.4 | 1.4 | - 0.606 | 0.159 |
| 51 | 99.5 | 4.31 (0.720) | 0.369 | 44.6 | 0.1 | - 0.860 | 0.603 |
| 53 | 97.8 | 4.28 (0.650) | 0.479 | 37.1 | 0.0 | - 0.563 | 0.291 |
| Social desirability | - 0.431 | 0.080 | |||||
| 61 SD | 97.0 | 4.27 (0.833) | 0.441 | 45.8 | 0.3 | - 1.070 | 0.753 |
| 36 SD | 90.8 | 3.64 (0.810) | 0.538 | 11.4 | 0.8 | - 0.337 | 0.184 |
| 28 SD | 98.6 | 3.89 (0.776) | 0.553 | 19.8 | 0.4 | - 0.513 | 0.385 |
| 19 | 96.7 | 4.01 (0.914) | 0.446 | 30.2 | 1.2 | - 0.961 | 0.744 |
| 31 SD | 98.4 | 4.00 (0.699) | 0.395 | 22.9 | 0.0 | - 0.233 | - 0.314 |
| Emotions/Empathy | - 0.219 | -0.269 | |||||
| 55 | 92.8 | 3.35 (0.967) | 0.489 | 10.6 | 2.6 | - 0.175 | - 0.388 |
| 18 | 95.4 | 3.36 (0.883) | 0.477 | 8.5 | 1.5 | - 0.117 | - 0.238 |
| 63 | 97.4 | 3.32(0.939) | 0.509 | 8.4 | 2.0 | - 0.204 | - 0.505 |
| 26 | 99.2 | 3.99 (0.897) | 0.346 | 30.8 | 0.7 | - 0.771 | 0.234 |
| 48 | 98.1 | 3.48 (1.127) | 0.442 | 21.1 | 3.9 | - 0.293 | - 0.798 |
| Knowledge/Awareness | - 0.859 | 0.550 | |||||
| 30 | 98.4 | 4.51 (0.742) | 0.421 | 61.0 | 0.8 | - 1.849 | 4.297 |
| 9 | 96.6 | 4.11 (0.834) | 0.339 | 32.9 | 0.9 | - 1.045 | 1.411 |
| 11 | 99.2 | 3.77 (1.142) | 0.362 | 31.6 | 3.9 | - 0.695 | - 0.419 |
| 25 | 99.6 | 4.64 (0.596) | 0.250 | 69.2 | 0.0 | -1.682 | 2.814 |
* Total: 32 items after principal component analysis (PCA); %Ceiling/Floor effect = the percentage of scores at the extremes of the scaling range; Higher values equal higher cross-cultural competence.