Research Article
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 | 1 | 2 | 3 | Mean ± SD | Communalities 2 | Corrected item-total correlations |
| 2 | 0.720 | 0 | 0 | | 0.572 | 0.556 | 1R* | 0.718 | 0 | 0 | | 0.656 | 0.649 | 20 | 0.686 | 0 | 0 | | 0.591 | 0.562 | 19R | 0.671 | 0 | 0 | | 0.476 | 0.418 | 4 | 0.424 | 0 | 0 | | 0.297 | 0.456 | 10 | 0.423 | 0 | 0 | | 0.262 | 0.422 | 13 | 0.382 | 0 | 0 | | 0.206 | 0.361 | 6R | 0 | 0.721 | 0 | | 0.635 | 0.646 | 18R | 0 | 0.694 | 0 | | 0.612 | 0.657 | 3R | 0 | 0.658 | 0 | | 0.442 | 0.428 | 14R | 0 | 0.652 | 0 | | 0.481 | 0.528 | 7R | 0 | 0.528 | 0 | | 0.430 | 0.561 | 8R | 0 | 0.520 | 0 | | 0.325 | 0.334 | 12R | 0 | 0.494 | 0 | | 0.297 | 0.421 | 11R | 0 | 0.407 | 0 | | 0.360 | 0.533 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0.698 | | 0.531 | 0.386 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0.638 | | 0.474 | 0.436 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0.560 | | 0.495 | 0.508 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0.553 | | 0.369 | 0.408 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0.487 | | 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.
|