Empathy in Undergraduate Medical Students of Bangladesh: Psychometric Analysis and Differences by Gender, Academic Year, and Specialty Preferences

Table 4

Principal component analysis with varimax rotation and corrected item-total correlations of the Bengali version of JSE S-version.

Items	𝐹1	𝐹2	𝐹3	Mean ± SD	Communalities ℎ2	Corrected item-total correlations 𝑟i-t
2	0.720	0	0	6.39±0.75	0.572	0.556
1R*	0.718	0	0	5.04±1.76	0.656	0.649
20	0.686	0	0	6.17±0.89	0.591	0.562
19R	0.671	0	0	5.89±1.40	0.476	0.418
4	0.424	0	0	6.01±0.87	0.297	0.456
10	0.423	0	0	6.06±0.88	0.262	0.422
13	0.382	0	0	5.82±0.94	0.206	0.361
6R	0	0.721	0	4.25±1.48	0.635	0.646
18R	0	0.694	0	4.14±1.76	0.612	0.657
3R	0	0.658	0	4.72±1.33	0.442	0.428
14R	0	0.652	0	4.93±1.66	0.481	0.528
7R	0	0.528	0	5.46±1.42	0.430	0.561
8R	0	0.520	0	5.00±1.36	0.325	0.334
12R	0	0.494	0	5.68±1.16	0.297	0.421
11R	0	0.407	0	6.06±1.16	0.360	0.533
16	0	0	0.698	5.68±0.90	0.531	0.386
17	0	0	0.638	5.47±1.16	0.474	0.436
9	0	0	0.560	5.83±1.13	0.495	0.508
15	0	0	0.553	5.83±1.07	0.369	0.408
5	0	0	0.487	5.98±1.02	0.449	0.437
% of variance	31.29	7.46	6.05
Alpha	0.75	0.81	0.68

∗R: items were reverse scored.
The factor pattern coefficients of 0.35 and below were replaced by zeros.