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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Aug 18.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Addict. 2017 Jul 14;26(7):689–696. doi: 10.1111/ajad.12583

Table 3. Factor Analysis and Internal Consistency/Reliability of mFTQ by Country.

Factor analysis

Items Thailand Spain USA Russia

Factor loadings
1. Cigarettes/day 0.579 0.670 0.611 0.337
2. Inhale? 0.414 0.577 0.559 0.330
3. Time to 1st cigarette 0.620 0.819 0.858 0.754
4. Hate-to-give-up cigarette 0.222 0.405 0.672 0.672
5. Forbidden cigarettes 0.583 0.635 0.679 0.678
6. Smoke if ill 0.463 0.762 0.721 0.642
7. Morning smoking 0.636 0.628 0.362 0.709

Internal Consistency

Items Thailand Spain USA Russia

α (r)

1. Cigarettes/day 0.504 (0.445) 0.648 (0.035) 0.722 (0.287) 0.704 (0.249)
2. Inhale? 0.553 (0.237) 0.663 (0.192) 0.751 (0.358) 0.708 (0.261)
3. Time to 1st cigarette 0.441 (0.471) 0.574 (0.547) 0.651 (0.698) 0.638 (0.517)
4. Hate-to-give-up cigarette 0.634 (0.071) 0.692 (0.287) 0.706 (0.528) 0.644 (0.506)
5. Forbidden cigarettes 0.485 (0.379) 0.619 (0.399) 0.709 (0.498) 0.627 (0.550)
6. Smoke if ill 0.525 (0.315) 0.584 (0.537) 0.695 (0.558) 0.657 (0.451)
7. Morning smoking 0.509 (0.412) 0.667 (0.295) 0.759 (0.227) 0.685 (0.443)

Scale Cronbach's alpha†† 0.562 0.673 0.748 0.703

Note.

Presents Cronbach's alpha of scale if the item is dropped, followed by the item-rest correlation in parentheses.

††

Presents Cronbach's alpha of the full scale. Factor loadings above 0.30 are presented in bold.