Testing Two Student Nurse Stress Instruments in Chinese Nursing Students: A Comparative Study Using Exploratory Factor Analysis

Table 3

Item-to-total score Pearson’s rank correlation coefficients for SNSI-CHI and factor loading of SNSI-CHI items from factor analysis ().

Items	Item-to-total correlation coefficient ()	Cronbach’s α if item deleted	F1	F2	F3	F4	Communality
S1	0.621^※	0.879	0.733	-0.469	0.103	0.009	0.799
S2	0.664^※	0.878	0.711	0.323	0190	0.117	0.740
S3	0.656^※	0.878	0.748	-0.468	0.190	0.117	0.779
S4	0.615^※	0.879	0.360	0.026	0.848	0.219	0.803
S5	0.599^※	0.879	0.178	0.047	0.843	0.042	0.810
S6	0.618^※	0.879	0.100	0.104	0.825	0.374	0.783
S7	0.351^※	0.898	0.248	0.016	0.801	0.033	0.719
S8	0.660^※	0.878	0.715	-0.262	0.097	0.062	0.788
S9	0.551^※	0.881	0.310	0.291	0.070	0.650	0.474
S10	0.550^※	0.881	0.121	0.125	0.189	0.725	0.554
S11	0.421^※	0.884	0.311	0.377	0.090	0.700	0.515
S12	0.528^※	0.881	0.388	0.381	0.095	0.727	0.537
S13	0.601^※	0.880	0.352	0.827	0.165	0.268	0.812
S14	0.634^※	0.878	0.041	0.830	0.142	0.081	0.873
S15	0.655^※	0.878	0.115	0.185	0.841	0.151	0.812
S16	0.611^※	0.879	0.224	0.828	0.304	0.098	0.837
S17	0.496^※	0.883	0.153	0.820	0.378	0.109	0.816
S18	0.453^※	0.885	0.080	0.835	0.198	0.222	0.844
S19	0.584^※	0.880	0.212	0.821	0.082	0.306	0.832
S20	0.426^※	0.888	0.733	0.154	0.103	0.046	0.806
S21	0.633^※	0.878	0.082	0.095	0.814	0.360	0.761
S22	0.593^※	0.886	0.149	0.145	0.846	0.366	0.809

^※; SNSI-CHI: the Chinese Version of the Student Nurse Stress Index Scale; S1-S22: item 1-item 22; S1-S22: item 1-item 22; factor 1 (academic load, 6 items), factor 2 (clinical concerns, 5 items), factor 3 (interface worries), and factor 4 (personal problems, 4 items).