Table 4.

Means, standard deviations, item-adjusted total correlations, and alpha if item deleted for the one-factor model of the BES.

BES items	Total sample		Women sample				Men sample				rit	αid
	M	SD	M	SD	Skewness	Kurtosis	M	SD	Skewness	Kurtosis
1	1.82	0.78	1.88	0.77	0.31	–0.92	1.53	0.68	1.07	0.71	0.470	0.863
2	1.80	0.94	1.81	0.94	0.51	–1.36	1.78	0.95	0.85	–0.48	0.389	0.870
3	1.43	0.68	1.45	0.69	1.33	0.78	1.35	0.63	1.82	3.00	0.625	0.856
4	2.07	0.74	2.14	0.72	0.42	0.23	1.81	0.77	0.58	–0.30	0.482	0.863
5	1.63	0.64	1.69	0.65	0.55	–0.07	1.43	0.61	1.38	2.03	0.570	0.859
6	1.48	0.63	1.55	0.63	0.80	–0.05	1.25	0.55	2.41	6.48	0.493	0.862
7	1.23	0.57	1.24	0.56	2.51	6.37	1.20	0.59	3.24	10.43	0.551	0.860
8	1.86	0.72	1.87	0.71	0.39	–0.30	1.81	0.74	0.45	–0.60	0.565	0.859
9	1.46	0.78	1.48	0.80	1.71	2.22	1.45	0.76	1.57	1.56	0.487	0.863
10	1.42	0.64	1.47	0.67	1.34	1.41	1.32	0.56	1.87	4.29	0.661	0.855
11	1.53	0.60	1.55	0.59	0.66	–0.03	1.47	0.62	1.21	1.62	0.612	0.858
12	1.31	0.62	1.33	0.62	1.93	3.38	1.25	0.63	2.75	7.35	0.445	0.864
13	1.55	0.77	1.58	0.78	1.45	1.85	1.50	0.80	1.82	3.09	0.309	0.871
14	1.69	0.78	1.76	0.78	0.71	–0.20	1.41	0.71	1.58	1.48	0.614	0.856
15	1.75	0.82	1.84	0.82	0.73	–0.09	1.55	0.79	1.44	1.57	0.511	0.862
16	1.33	0.59	1.35	0.59	1.55	1.78	1.25	0.58	2.53	6.31	0.432	0.865

M, mean; SD, standard deviation; r_it, item-adjusted total correlation; α_id, alpha if item deleted.