Psychological impact of cancer scale: Turkish validity and reliability study

Table 2 Exploratory factor analysis results of Psychological Impact of Cancer Scale

Scale items	Communality	Corrected item-total correlations	Cronbach’s alpha if item deleted	Factor load values
				F1	F2	F3	F4
Item 8	0.909	0.411	0.839	0.943
Item 10	0.894	0.492	0.834	0.917
Item 11	0.848	0.454	0.837	0.888
Item 2	0.887	0.511	0.7		0.833
Item 6	0.87	0.538	0.7		0.83
Item 7	0.879	0.556	0.7		0.829
Item 1	0.887	0.46	0.68			0.837
Item 4	0.836	0.635	0.67			0.827
Item 9	0.882	0.536	0.5			0.831
Item 3	0.798	0.543	0.67				0.83
Item 5	0.764	0.51	0.66				0.833
Item 12	0.812	0.54	0.66				0.831
Eigenvalue	-	-	-	2.686	2.587	2.52	2.406
Total explained variance (%) = 84.98%	-	-	-	22.382	21.555	21.001	20.051