Factor structure and psychometric properties of the german version chronic uncertainty scale (CU-20)

BMC Psychology

Table 1 Item characteristics of the German version CU-20

	item	mean	SD	median	S	K	se	α	α _item	λ	r _it	difficulty
Safety	cu8	2.81	1.97	2	0.59	-1.3	0.09	0.95	0.94	0.95	0.87	0.47
	cu10	2.66	2.00	2	0.74	-1.16	0.09		0.93	0.95	0.89	0.44
	cu17	2.88	1.78	2	0.55	-1.12	0.08		0.92	0.95	0.91	0.48
	cu18	2.86	1.67	2	0.57	-0.95	0.08		0.94	0.95	0.86	0.48
Finances	cu3	3.08	1.71	3	0.35	-1.19	0.08	0.94	0.93	0.93	0.83	0.51
	cu7	2.95	1.82	2	0.5	-1.24	0.09		0.91	0.93	0.9	0.49
	cu11	3.04	1.78	3	0.36	-1.28	0.08		0.93	0.93	0.83	0.51
	cu16	2.88	1.84	2	0.53	-1.23	0.09		0.92	0.93	0.89	0.48
Relational	cu6	3.12	1.78	3	0.34	-1.31	0.08	0.96	0.95	0.94	0.89	0.52
	cu9	2.92	1.81	2	0.46	-1.25	0.09		0.93	0.94	0.91	0.49
	cu14	2.97	1.8	2	0.42	-1.26	0.08		0.92	0.94	0.93	0.50
Country	cu2	3.32	1.49	3	0.18	-1.14	0.07	0.87	0.77	0.83	0.81	0.55
	cu4	3.08	1.54	3	0.4	-1	0.07		0.82	0.83	0.76	0.51
	cu12	3.26	1.5	3	0.17	-1	0.07		0.87	0.83	0.71	0.54
Health	cu1	2.76	1.84	2	0.68	-1.08	0.09		0.83	0.87	0.76	0.46
	cu5	3.02	1.53	3	0.41	-0.93	0.07	0.87	0.87	0.87	0.65	0.50
	cu13	2.75	1.7	2	0.62	-0.94	0.08		0.80	0.87	0.81	0.46
	cu15	2.85	1.4	3	0.54	-0.63	0.07		0.85	0.87	0.72	0.47
Separated	cu19	2.62	2.12	1	0.76	-1.24	0.10	0.96	0.92	0.92	0.92	0.44
	cu20	2.61	2.16	1	0.79	-1.24	0.10		0.85	0.92	0.92	0.44

Note: for all items sample size N = 450, minimum = 1, maximum = 6. S = skew. K = kurtosis α = Cronbach’s α. α item = alpha minus the item
λ = Guttman’s λ. r_it = corrected item-total correlation

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