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. 2017 Mar 11;4(2):135–141. doi: 10.1016/j.ijnss.2017.02.007

Table 3.

Correlations between the items and the total score on the Death Depression Scale (DDS) in nurses.

Item 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Total
1 1
2 0.37** 1
3 0.34** 0.44** 1
4 0.41** 0.39** 0.43** 1
5 0.41** 0.34** 0.34** 0.43** 1
6 0.46** 0.33** 0.30** 0.36** 0.35** 1
7 0.37** 0.31** 0.29** 0.19* 0.19* 0.39** 1
8 0.44** 0.19* 0.24* 0.27** 0.31** 0.43** 0.43** 1
9 0.17 0.23* 0.18 0.22* 0.15 0.33** 0.21* 0.16 1
10 0.38** 0.31** 0.38** 0.43** 0.31** 0.36** 0.38** 0.32** 0.31** 1
11 −0.21* 0–0.13 −0.07 −0.11 −0.10 −0.20* −0.04 −0.11 −0.23* −0.13 1
12 0.10 0.06 −0.01 −0.02 0.08 −0.12 −0.00 0.04 −0.06 −0.06 0.24* 1
13 0.39** 0.50** 0.35** 0.46** 0.39** 0.53** 0.40** 0.41** 0.32** 0.33** −0.19 0.01 1
14 0.32** 0.39** 0.45** 0.34** 0.30** 0.23* 0.27** 0.26** 0.12 0.34** −0.19* 0.02 0.33** 1
15 0.28** 0.19* 0.12 0.25** 0.33** 0.27** 0.23* 0.24* 0.15 0.40** −0.33** −0.17 0.22* 0.27** 1
16 0.35** 0.32** 0.27** 0.34** 0.30** 0.41** 0.49** 0.50** 0.29** 0.33** −0.11 0.141 0.60** 0.36** 0.22* 1
17 0.41** 0.42** 0.37** 0.38** 0.33** 0.28** 0.26** 0.24** 0.33** 0.40** −0.15 −0.07 0.34** 0.36** 0.34** 0.25** 1
Total 0.66** 0.63** 0.61** 0.64** 0.61** 0.63** 0.59** 0.59** 0.43** 0.64** −0.11 0.13 0.70** 0.57** 0.43** 0.66** 0.61** 1

*Significant at the 0.05 level.

**Significant at the 0.01 level. Note. See the items in Table 3. Items of high loadings (>.40) are given in bold to more clearly differentiate the correlations.