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.