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Table 6 Discrimination and difficulty parameters for the items of each dimension

From: The Monkeypox Fear Scale: development and initial validation in a Peruvian sample

Dimensions

Item

a

b1

b2

b3

b4

Physiological

M3

3.49

− .38

.48

1.19

1.81

M6

3.69

− .30

.46

1.43

2.11

M7

3.49

− .52

.21

.93

1.54

Emotional

M1

2.45

− 1.24

− .31

.61

1.63

M2

1.79

− 1.27

− .21

.79

1.77

M4

2.21

− .37

.37

1.15

2.15

M5

3.27

− .40

.35

1.06

1.87

  1. a = discrimination parameters; b = difficulty parameters