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 | ||||
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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.