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. 2021 Mar 22;17:893–903. doi: 10.2147/NDT.S295912

Table 4.

Multivariate Descriptive, Sample Size Adequacy, Quality and Effectiveness of Factor Score, and Reliability Measures of the Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)-7 Scale Among Young Adults

Measures Values
Multivariate descriptive
 Mardia’s skewness Χ2 (df = 84) = 143.021, p = 0.999
 Mardia’s kurtosis Χ2 = −0.833, p = 0.202
Effectiveness and quality of factor score estimates*
 Factor Determinacy Index (FDI) 0.885
 Expected a posteriori marginalreliability 0.783
Sample size adequacy
 Bartlett’s test of Sphericity Χ2 (df = 21) = 266.8, p < 0.001
 Determinant 0.368
 KMO (95% confidence interval) 0.819 (0.802–0.853)
Internal consistency
 Greatest Lower Bound to Reliability 0.813
 McDonald’s Omega 0.772

Notes: Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin Test of Sampling Adequacy (KMO); *for the 1-factor structure of the GAD-7 scale.