Table 3.

Factor loadings and internal consistency of the Swedish version of the CECSS without the negatively worded items (5, 9, 14, 17)

Item number	Factor 1	Factor 2	Factor 3	Variance %	Communalities	Cronbach’s alpha
1	0.565				0.428
8	0.664				0.541
10	0.712				0.542
11	0.700				0.629
12	0.750				0.613
13	0.728				0.576
15	0.649				0.672
16	0.541				0.342
18	0.764				0.672
19	0.756			41.7	0.645	0.88
4		0.827			0.744
6		0.824			0.755
7		0.876		13.1	0.793	0.85
2			0.846		0.794
3			0.763	8.3	0.713	0.79
Entire scale				63.1		0.87