Validation of the Breastfeeding Experience Scale in a Sample of Iranian Mothers

Table 3

Cronbach’s alpha of the BES subscales as originally assigned by Wambach.

Subscales^†	Cronbach’s alpha
	Wambach’s study [13]	As originally assigned by Wambach	Primiparas	Multiparas
Mechanic	0.60 (5 items)	0.73 (5 items)	0.79	0.53
Insufficient milk	0.86 (3 items)	0.74 (3 items)	0.78	0.68
Breast	0.68 (3 items)	0.66 (3 items)	0.70	0.53
Social	0.48 (2 items)	0.40 (2 items)	0.50	0.16
Process	0.56 (5 items)	0.54 (5 items)	0.58	0.49
Total	0.77	0.83	0.86	0.71

†Subscales as originally assigned by Wambach (1998) [13]; the order of the subscales is based on the order of the factors extracted by Wambach.