TABLE 1.
Results of the Exploratory Factorial Analysis of the Pandemic Fatigue Scale: Factor Loadings, Reliability Estimates, and Percentage of Explained Variance. Study Attitudes, behaviors, and psychological health in time of pandemic, Spain, 2021.
Items | Highest loading for each one of the two factors | |
F1 | F2 | |
1. I am fed up with the COVID topic being talked about so much in all the media | — | 0.872 |
2. When someone starts talking about COVID, I am disinterested | — | 0.779 |
3. I do not want to hear more about the COVID issue | — | 0.877 |
4. I am already so tired of the COVID issue that I am not as careful as I was at the beginning | 0.888 | — |
5. So much time immersed in the pandemic discourages me from adopting protection measures against COVID | 0.883 | — |
6. I am already so fed up with COVID that I no longer adopt certain protection measures that I would have taken before to avoid becoming infected | 0.849 | — |
Scale reliability estimates | ||
Cronbach’s alpha values | 0.85 | 0.89 |
Percentage of explained variance | 59.28 | 20.08 |