Table 6.
Descriptive statistics for WDEQ-Revised subscales and correlations with other measures
| WDEQ-Revised subscale | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Negative emotions | Lack of positive emotions | Social isolation | Moment of birth | |
| N = 1404 | N = 1406 | N = 1405 | N = 1405 | |
| Number of items | 5 items | 5 items | 4 items | 3 items |
| 25th percentilea | 1.2 | 1.20 | 0 | 0 |
| 50th percentilea (median) | 1.80 | 1.80 | 0.0 | .67 |
| 75th percentilea | 2.4 | 2.4 | 1.0 | 1.3 |
| Rangeb | 0–5 | 0–5 | 0–4 | 0–5 |
| n (%) of cases exceeding the cutpoint of 2.5 | 302 (21.5%) | 417 (24.6%) | 54 (3.8%) | 122 (8.7%) |
| Cronbach Alpha | .87 | .82 | .86 | .86 |
| Intercorrelations among WDEQ subscalescd | ||||
| Negative emotions | - | |||
| Lack of Positive emotions | .66 | - | ||
| Social isolation | .39 | .45 | - | |
| Moment of birth | .29 | .49 | .34 | - |
| Correlations with other measuresd | ||||
| FOBS-The Fear of Birth ScaleTM | .65 | .58 | .31 | .29 |
| EPDS-Total | .38 | .37 | .33 | .23 |
| EPDS-3A | .34 | .33 | .27 | .20 |
aNote. Scores on each WDEQ-Revised subscale are calculated by adding the score for each item (0 to 5) and dividing by the number of items in the subscale. This allows comparison across subscales with different number of items
bPossible score range 0 to 5
cAll WDEQ subscale intercorrelations are significant at p < .001
dSpearman correlation coefficient