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. 2022 Dec 23;13:1008492. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1008492

Table 3.

Descriptive analysis of definitive items of the CAAS in the sub-sample 1 and factorial weights.

No. Statement item M SD Skew Kurt CITC-F FW
Autonomy
05 The woman who decides to abort has self-esteem for giving herself what she wants in life 3.14 1,182 −0.163 −0.626 0.652 0.733
06 A woman has the right to abort as many times as necessary 3.00 1,442 0.011 −1,301 0.635 0.598
09 What a woman wants for her life cannot be truncated by an unwanted pregnancy 3.20 1,311 −0.213 −0.962 0.520 0.572
10 Women who choose abortion are strong for defying the traditional mandate of motherhood 2.91 1,264 0.012 −0.907 0.615 0.813
12 Forcing a woman to carry an unwanted pregnancy to term should be understood as a violation of human rights 3.46 1,358 −0.433 −0.973 0.531 0.417
14 Termination of a pregnancy is justified if necessary for a prime life 3.22 1,263 −0.205 −0.933 0.611 0.690
15 If a woman has no desire to gestate and be a mother, you do not have to do it even if you get pregnant 3.45 1,279 −0.352 −0.911 0.689 0.586
16 A woman who aborts is a woman with the strength to go against what society expects of her 2.87 1,285 0.094 −0.965 0.653 0.806
Stigma
01 I would be disappointed if I knew that someone I love had an abortion 2.23 1,351 0.714 −0.761 0.729 0.769
02 Women should be ashamed to share their decision to abort publicly 1.89 1,146 1,093 0.220 0.674 0.644
03 Many of the women who decide on abortion were not cautious enough to avoid finding themselves in this situation 2.57 1.37 0.330 −1,136 0.657 0.620
04 A woman who aborts is a murderer 1.98 1,229 0.988 −0.135 0.806 0.758
07 Young women take abortion as a game 2.58 1,335 0.25 −1,128 0.732 0.640
08 Women who decide not to abort are blessed by God 2.01 1.20 0.838 −0.365 0.675 0.805
11 Only God can take life 2.40 1,431 0.515 −0.063 0.657 0.622
13 Women from birth have a maternal instinct 2.28 1,226 0.504 −0.822 0.493 0.681
17 Understandably, a man rejects a woman for having had an abortion in the past 1.87 1,051 0.960 0.067 0.598 0.722
18 Women who have abortions do not usually maintain stable relationships 2.21 1,137 0.438 −0.724 0.687 0.719

M = Mean; SD = Standard deviation; Skew = Skewness; Kurt = Kurtosis; CTIC-F = total item correlation corrected by factor; FW = Factor Weights.