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. 2021 Dec 20;21:424. doi: 10.1186/s12905-021-01566-0

Table 3.

Quality assessment of included studies (Ratings for each of the scales included in the review (1 if done and 0 if not done))

Author, year Followed an a priori explicit theoretical framework Reported efforts towards content validation Exploratory factor analysis Confirmatory factor analysis Relationships with theoretically related construct (external construct validity) Reliability scores above 0.7 Total score Interpretation, ≤ 2 = poor quality; 3–4 = medium quality; 5–6 = high quality
Upadhyay et al. 2020 [11] 1 1 1 0 0 1 4 Medium quality
Upadhyay et al. 2014 [24] 1 1 1 0 0 1 4 Medium quality
Hinson et al. 2019 [12] 1 1 1 0 1 0 4 Medium quality
Moreau et al. 2020 [13] 1 1 1 0 0 1 4 Medium quality
McCauley et al. 2017 [25] 0 0 1 0 1 1 2 Poor quality
Morokoff et al. 2010 [5] 1 0 0 1 1 1 3 Medium quality
Santos-Iglesias and Carlos Sierra 2010 [32] 1 1 1 1 1 1 6 High quality
Loshek and Terrell 2014 [26] 1 1 1 1 1 1 6 High quality
Jones 2006 [7] 1 1 1 0 1 1 5 High quality
Jones and Gulick 2009 [8] 1 0 1 1 1 1 5 High quality
Pulerwitz et al. 2000 [6] 1 0 0 0 0 1 2 Poor quality
Pulerwitz et al. 2018 [29] 0 0 1 1 0 1 3 Medium quality
Bhandari et al. 2014 [27] 0 1 1 0 1 1 4 Medium quality
Closson et al. 2019 [30] 1 1 1 1 0 0 4 Medium quality
Asaolu et al. 2018 [31] 1 0 1 1 1 0 4 Medium quality