Table 3.

Descriptive and psychometric characteristics of the Brazilian BCSQ-36.

						3-Factors	Bifactor
Scale/Subscale/Item	Mn	SD	skew	kurt	λ	δ		G	δ
Frenetic	4.66	0.97	−0.28	1.20
Ambition	4.65	1.24	−0.32	0.22
Item 1	4.54	1.55	−0.42	−0.19	0.67 *	0.55	0.55 *	0.48 *	0.47
Item 4	4.78	1.50	−0.52	−0.08	0.73 *	0.47	0.39 *	0.53 *	0.48
Item 7	4.76	1.41	−0.28	−0.22	0.83 *	0.31	0.27 †	0.62 *	0.29
Item 10	4.54	1.50	−0.24	−0.40	0.83 *	0.31	0.57 *	0.61 *	0.26
Overload	4.13	1.32	−0.04	−0.43
Item 2	4.63	1.56	−0.20	−0.56	0.66 *	0.57	0.37 *	0.61 *	0.58
Item 5	3.85	1.64	0.18	−0.61	0.81 *	0.35	0.50 *	0.66 *	0.37
Item 8	3.98	1.67	0.03	−0.69	0.80 *	0.37	0.65 *	0.80 *	0.32
Item 11	4.05	1.56	0.03	−0.58	0.77 *	0.41	0.61 *	0.51 *	0.38
Involvement	5.21	0.96	−0.83	3.16
Item 3	5.37	1.20	−0.69	0.52	0.75 *	0.44	0.39 *	0.62 *	0.46
Item 6	5.34	1.20	−0.71	1.50	0.77 *	0.40	0.40 *	0.65 *	0.41
Item 9	5.13	1.22	−0.80	1.81	0.75 *	0.44	0.42 *	0.50 *	0.43
Item 12	4.99	1.11	−0.59	1.70	0.66 *	0.56	0.51 *	0.49 *	0.50
Under-challenged	3.35	1.20	0.14	−0.01
Indifference	2.88	1.13	0.45	0.51
Item 13	2.77	1.46	0.65	0.28	0.69 *	0.53	0.59 *	0.47 *	0.44
Item 16	2.59	1.39	0.84	0.82	0.83 *	0.32	0.54 *	0.59 *	0.30
Item 19	3.88	1.70	−0.02	−0.60	0.60 *	0.64	0.02	0.74 *	0.53
Item 22	2.28	1.27	0.99	1.39	0.71 *	0.50	0.46 *	0.63 *	0.49
L. Development	3.71	1.46	0.07	−0.44
Item 14	3.72	1.77	0.18	−0.72	0.72 *	0.48	0.68	0.67 *	0.20
Item 17	3.42	1.61	0.36	−0.25	0.70 *	0.52	0.16 ‡	0.76 *	0.53
Item 20	4.12	1.89	−0.10	−0.97	0.81 *	0.34	0.42	0.68 *	0.31
Item 23	3.60	1.79	0.21	−0.82	0.82 *	0.34	0.10	0.72 *	0.35
Boredom	3.45	1.40	0.27	−0.18
Item 15	3.65	1.73	0.20	−0.72	0.76 *	0.42	0.11	0.77 *	0.44
Item 18	3.46	1.71	0.29	−0.71	0.71 *	0.50	0.15	0.55 *	0.40
Item 21	3.27	1.63	0.43	−0.31	0.81 *	0.35	0.25	0.80 *	0.35
Item 24	3.42	1.71	0.31	−0.61	0.80 *	0.36	0.45 ‡	0.76 *	0.22
Worn-out	3.74	1.02	−0.11	0.76
L. Acknowledgement	4.04	1.38	0.07	−0.29
Item 25	3.68	1.73	0.25	−0.66	0.71 *	0.50	0.42 *	0.55 *	0.53
Item 28	3.82	1.81	0.19	−0.80	0.41 *	0.83	0.20 ‡	0.46 *	0.85
Item 31	4.39	1.74	−0.10	−0.81	0.79 *	0.37	0.46 *	0.62 *	0.42
Item 34	4.27	1.75	−0.08	−0.75	0.94 *	0.11	0.78 *	0.34 *	0.02
Neglect	2.64	1.14	0.64	1.24
Item 26	2.76	1.39	0.57	0.13	0.79 *	0.37	0.64 *	0.41 *	0.38
Item 29	2.73	1.30	0.69	1.03	0.80 *	0.36	0.69 *	0.73 *	0.36
Item 32	2.30	1.16	0.72	1.24	0.80 *	0.36	0.70 *	0.60 *	0.35
Item 35	2.78	1.41	0.79	0.88	0.86 *	0.27	0.68 *	0.41 *	0.27
L. Control	4.53	1.29	−0.67	0.32
Item 27	4.97	1.66	−0.72	0.04	0.73 *	0.47	0.51 *	0.73 *	0.36
Item 30	4.62	1.68	−0.54	−0.29	0.76 *	0.42	0.20	0.65 *	0.43
Item 33	3.60	1.56	0.13	−0.51	0.67 *	0.55	0.01	0.51 *	0.47
Item 36	4.95	1.59	−0.63	0.01	0.71 *	0.49	0.45 †	0.61 *	0.43

Note: Mn: mean; SD: standard deviation. Skew: skewness. Kurt: kurtosis. λ: factorial loading. δ: uniqueness term. G: general factor. ^‡ p < 0.05. ^† p < 0.01. * p < 0.001. P₇₅ (75th percentile): Frenetic = 5.25; ambition = 5.50; overload = 5.00; involvement = 6.00; under-challenged = 4.08; indifference = 3.50; lack of development = 4.75; boredom = 4.25; worn-out = 4.33; lack of acknowledgement = 5.00; neglect = 3.25; lack of control = 5.25.