Development and preliminary testing of the psychosocial adjustment to hereditary diseases scale

BMC Psychology

Table 4 Factor scores and final item to scale correlations

Scale item	Factor 1	Factor 2	BK^§	FC^§
BK11_R	.620	-.121	0.58*	-0.27
BR14_R	.555	-.051	0.45*	-0.19
BK15_R	.516	-.080	0.46*	-0.21
BK17_R	.531	-.150	0.49*	-0.27
BK18_R	.562	-.412	0.55*	-0.52
BK19_R	.520	-.160	0.48*	-0.29
BK20_R	.583	-.218	0.55*	-0.33
BK24_R	.473	-.055	0.42*	-0.18
BK25_R	.612	-.188	0.56*	-0.34
BK27_R	.533	-.209	0.50*	-0.33
FC16	-.263	.524	-0.38	0.46*
FC21	-.103	.769	-0.32	0.70*
FC22	.001	.706	-0.20	0.59*
FC23	-.180	.798	-0.39	0.73*
FC26	-.237	.503	-0.37	0.51*
FC28	-.162	.537	-0.30	0.48*
FC29	-.180	.600	-0.34	0.58*

Abbreviations: BK = Burden of knowing, FC = Family connectedness.
Extraction Method: Maximum likelihood; Number of factors to retain: Scree test; Rotation method: Varimax.
^§ Item-scale correlation corrected for overlap (relevant item removed from its scale for correlation). ^*Denotes item correlations with hypothesized scales.

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