Table 4.
Factor scores of the developing scale for each respondent group
| 4th-year medical students N = 115 | 6th-year medical students N = 119 | 2nd-year residents N = 47 | Instructors N = 37 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean | (SD) | Mean | (SD) | Mean | (SD) | Mean | (SD) | |
| Factor 1 | −0.11 | (0.92) | −0.07 | (0.93) | 0.16 | (1.23) | 0.37 | (1.06) |
| Factor 2 | −0.17 | (0.94) | −0.36 | (0.91) | 0.62 | (0.90) | 0.92 | (0.64) |
| Factor 3 | −0.07 | (1.02) | −0.05 | (0.95) | −0.10 | (1.11) | 0.52 | (0.81) |
| Factor 4 | −0.01 | (1.05) | −0.19 | (0.88) | 0.06 | (1.12) | 0.54 | (0.85) |
| Factor 5 | −0.16 | (0.84) | −0.12 | (1.02) | 0.04 | (0.93) | 0.81 | (1.13) |
N: number of respondents; SD: standard deviation
Each factor score was computed by SPSS ver. 23 using factor loadings and respondent’ scores of all 15 items, and each factor was standardized to have a mean of 0 and a variance of 1