Table 1.

Survey questions, subscale grouping, and factor loadings.

	Item	Rotated factor loading
Scale 1 Barriers Alpha = .77	1. If a person has signed the organ donor registry, doctors won’t try as hard to save that person’s life*	.71
	2. Hospitals do not give African Americans the same quality of care that they give to whites*	.63
	3. Organs can be bought and sold in the United States*	.56
	4. If a person has donated his or her organs, it is impossible for that person to have a regular funeral service*	.59
	5. It costs a donor family money to donate organs*	.70
	6. Organ donation is against the rules of my religion*	.60
	7. In general, doctors give preference to white people over black people when deciding who will receive an organ*	.75
Scale 2 Family and Racial Responsibility Alpha = .87	8. Organ donation is part of my responsibility to the black community	.70
	9. Signing up to donate my organs will allow my family to carry out my wishes	.70
	10. Signing up now to donate my organs can help my family by removing the stress of making that decision	.71
	11. Donating my organs may provide my family with some comfort	.80
	12. Donating my organs can help my family cope with their grief	.78
	13. If I donate my organs it will help other African Americans in need	.64
	14. Donating my organs is part of the giving tradition in African American culture	.62
Scale 3 Altruism: Helping Others Alpha = .81	15. Organ donation is an act of charity	.63
	16. Organ donation allows something positive to come out of a person’s death	.73
	17. Signing up to donate my organs is a way I can do something good for others	.63
	18. Donating my organs allows me to help others to live	.71

Note:

^*indicates items were reversed coded so that higher scores indicated more pro-donation attitudes.