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. 2022 Sep 15;13:945669. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.945669

TABLE 3.

DRS item statistics and reliability.

Item 1 Item 2 Item 3 Item 4 Item 5 Overall
Response Strongly agree (floor effect) 0 3.7 0 5.2 0
Agree 2.5 14.0 4.6 17.2 3.7
Neither agree nor disagree 14.1 23.6 22.4 23.2 22.7
Disagree 36.0 28.9 33.5 28.1 33.8
Strongly disagree (ceiling effect) 47.4 29.8 39.5 26.3 39.9
Item statistics Mean 4.28 3.67 4.08 3.53 4.10 73.31
Standard deviation 0.80 1.15 0.89 1.20 0.87 19.01
Skewness –0.851 –0.476 –0.545 –0.370 –0.524 –0.154
Kurtosis –0.040 –0.726 –0.717 –0.882 –0.753 –0.995
Internal reliability Alpha if item drop 0.78 0.77 0.78 0.81 0.78
Item-total correlation 0.65 0.63 0.63 0.65 0.54
Cronbach’s alpha 0.81
95% IC [0.797, 0.835]
McDonald’s omega 0.81
95% IC [0.791, 0.831]
Gutmann’s lamda 0.81
95% IC [0.795, 0.833]
Average inter-item correlation 0.496
95% IC [0.463, 0.529]

The scores of items 2 and 4 have been reversed. Strongly agree means low regret and strongly disagree means high regret. DRS: Item 1, It was the right decision; Item 2, I regret the choice that was made; Item 3, I would go for the same choice if I had to do it over again; Item 4, The choice did me a lot of harm; and Item 5, The decision was a wise one.