Table 3.

The exploratory factor analysis results of the C-FFCS (N = 170).

Item number and description	Pattern Matrix			Structure Matrix
	Factor 1	Factor 2	Factor 3	Factor 1	Factor 2	Factor 3
Factor 1
Item 11	0.876	0.012	−0.005	0.878	0.429	0.550
Item 10	0.816	−0.083	−0.031	0.757	0.296	0.448
Item 7	0.781	−0.025	0.103	0.834	0.391	0.583
Item 17	0.671	0.319	−0.127	0.744	0.589	0.424
Item 8	0.656	0.152	−0.121	0.652	0.417	0.352
Item 9	0.654	−0.090	0.142	0.700	0.281	0.516
Item 1	0.450	−0.154	0.384	0.617	0.217	0.604
Factor 2
Item 14	−0.095	0.943	0.057	0.393	0.921	0.379
Item 15	0.054	0.926	−0.078	0.449	0.921	0.331
Item 16	0.078	0.837	0.016	0.489	0.880	0.404
Item 13	−0.044	0.819	0.091	0.405	0.835	0.395
Factor 3
Item 2	−0.073	−0.113	0.886	0.429	0.210	0.795
Item 5	−0.088	0.110	0.882	0.519	0.425	0.871
Item 6	−0.066	0.164	0.718	0.463	0.423	0.743
Item 4	0.292	−0.075	0.632	0.653	0.321	0.785
Item 12	0.172	0.142	0.620	0.629	0.475	0.785
% of the variance	46.443	12.74	7.191	–	–	–
Cumulative variance	46.443	59.182	66.374	–	–	–

C-FFCS, Chinese version of the fathers’ fear of childbirth scale; Factor loadings with an absolute value > 0.40 are displayed in bold in the Pattern Matrix.