Table 5.
Results from factor analyses in the parents. Factor loadings and communalities based on a maximum likelihood estimation with oblimin rotation for 15 items and four factor solution from the modified pain coping questionnaire in parents (mPCQpar) (n = 130) and Eigenvalues, percentages of variance and cumulative percentages for the four factors
| Item (used in the study) | Item number in final scale | Factor 1. Catastrophizing (CATpar) | Factor 2. Distraction (DISpar) |
Factor 3. Seeking social support (SSS par) |
Factor 4. Positive self statement (PSSpar) |
Communality |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Q2. tell a friend how I feel. | 1 | 0.78 | 0.63 | |||
| Q3. start doing something. | 2 | 0.59 | 0.42 | |||
| Q4. worry that my child’s pain will never stop. | 3 | 0.79 | 0.64 | |||
| Q5. talk with someone about how I feel. | 4 | 0.81 | 0.70 | |||
| Q6. try to focus on something else than my child’s pain. | 5 | 0.93 | 0.82 | |||
| Q8. think all the time how much my child is aching. | 6 | 0.74 | 0.55 | |||
| Q10. say to myself that there is nothing to worry about my child. | 7 | 0.57 | 0.39 | |||
| Q11. think that nothing will help. | 8 | 0.61 | 0.39 | |||
| Q13. explain to myself that soon everything will be all right. | 9 | 0.92 | 0.84 | |||
| Q15. try not to think about my child’s pain. | 10 | 0.67 | 0.47 | |||
| Q16. think that my child’s pain will never ease off. | 11 | 0.79 | 0.65 | |||
| Q17. unburden my feelings to a friend. | 12 | 0.85 | 0.75 | |||
| Q18. assure myself that we can overcome anything at all | 13 | 0.54 | 0.37 | |||
| Q19. do something that will take my child’s pain out of my mind. | 14 | 0.66 | 0.51 | |||
| Q20. worry about my child’s pain almost all the time. | 15 | 0.77 | 0.59 | |||
| Eigenvalue | 3.66 | 2.94 | 2.22 | 1.43 | ||
| % of variance | 24.38 | 19.63 | 14.80 | 9.55 | ||
| Cumulative % | 24.38 | 44.00 | 58.81 | 68.36 | ||
| Cronbach alpha | 0.86 | 0.81 | 0.86 | 0.69 |