Table 1.

Psychometric characteristics of the instrument “Motives of Persons Aggrieved at Work for Seeking Spiritual Assistance (MP-SSA-40)”: prime and secondary factorization.

Scales*	Subscales**	Nofitems	Explained Dispersion, %	Cronbach alpha	Spearman-Brown	Factor Loading (L)			Total Item Correlation (r/itt)			Principal components F1***	Alpha factoring F1
						mean	min.	max.	mean	min.	max.
DR	DRA	7	54.92	0.86	0.82	0.74	0.65	0.79	0.54	0.33	0.80	0.89	0.75
	DRC	3	61.87	0.69	–	0.78	0.59	0.87	0.60	0.28	0.87	0.89	0.75
Explained Dispersion, %												78.48	56.86
VL	VLP	6	65.90	0.89	0.87	0.80	0.51	0.87	0.64	0.29	0.86	0.95	0.89
	VLO	6	64.64	0.89	0.83	0.80	0.72	0.86	0.64	0.40	0.86	0.95	0.89
Explained Dispersion, %												89.99	79.93
SA	SAK	6	67.66	0.90	0.86	0.82	0.74	0.89	0.67	0.46	0.88	–	–
MT	MTR	5	79.32	0.93	0.90	0.89	0.81	0.92	0.79	0.63	0.92	0.92	0.84
	MTC	7	61.50	0.90	0.89	0.78	0.74	0.85	0.61	0.44	0.84	0.92	0.84
Explained Dispersion, %												85.43	70.78

^*Scales: DR, Destructive relationships; VL, Values; SA, Service awareness; MT, Motives.

^**Subscales: DRA, Destructive actions; DRC, Causes of destructive actions; VLP, Personal values; VLO, Values of religious organizations; SAK, Knowledge of assistance provided by religious organizations; MTR, Motives determined by the relation; MTC, Motives determined by circumstances.

^***Principal components (a single-factor model) F1.