Caring Teaching as a Moral Practice: An Exploratory Study on Perceived Dimensions of Caring Teaching

Table 3

Factor loading and communalities (ℎ²) of the caring teaching scale.

Items	Factor 1	Factor 2	Factor 3	Factor 4	ℎ^2	Mean	SD
1	0.80				0.62	4.06	1.15
2	0.799				0.69	4.22	1.07
3	0.793				0.62	3.96	0.90
4	0.78				0.64	4.15	0.81
5	0.66				0.59	3.96	0.95
6	0.57				0.33	3.52	1.02
7	0.43				0.33	3.74	1.02
8		0.86			0.70	3.56	1.07
9		0.84			0.74	3.56	1.15
10		0.75			0.61	3.31	1.18
11			0.76		0.58	4.54	0.66
12			0.70		0.57	4.40	0.82
13			0.64		0.53	4.42	0.80
14			0.60		0.39	4.24	0.75
15				0.73	0.49	3.56	1.11
16				0.71	0.51	3.42	1.08
17				0.70	0.58	3.98	0.98
18				0.63	0.48	3.98	1.02
19				0.62	0.48	3.80	1.00
20				0.52	0.31	3.31	1.05
21				0.44	0.32	3.39	1.01