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

Table 4

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

Items	Item-to-total correlation coefficient ()	Cronbach’s α if item deleted	F1	F2	F3	F4	Communality
S1	0.547^※	0.921	0.216	0.148	0.114	0.800	0.854
S2	0.198^※	0.924	0.048	0.202	0.532	0.051	0.639
S3	0.424^※	0.922	0.135	0.298	0.007	0.735	0.776
S4	0.558^※	0.921	0.248	0.065	0.269	0.874	0.864
S7	0.545^※	0.921	0.869	0.122	0.168	0.291	0.818
S8	0.343^※	0.926	0.745	0.007	0.193	0.228	0.809
S9	0.599^※	0.921	0.728	0.260	0.378	0.101	0.830
S10	0.420^※	0.923	0.753	0.230	0.372	0.234	0.669
S12	0.550^※	0.921	0.782	0.366	0.001	0.281	0.788
S13	0.615^※	0.921	0.754	0.311	0.309	0.271	0.691
S14	0.490^※	0.922	0.805	0.234	0.345	0.092	0.746
S15	0.393^※	0.924	0.574	0.269	0.237	0.161	0.802
S17	0.486^※	0.922	0.902	0.312	0.206	0.064	0.58
S18	0.470^※	0.922	0.380	0.011	0.156	0.790	0.755
S20	0.596^※	0.921	0.736	0.300	0.155	0.212	0.835
S22	0.593^※	0.921	0.160	0.888	0.101	0.305	0.869
S23	0.609^※	0.921	0.109	0.330	0.757	0.188	0.801
S25	0.574^※	0.921	0.287	0.891	0.145	0.190	0.884
S26	0.565^※	0.921	0.226	0.745	0.219	0.150	0.715
S27	0.478^※	0.922	0.161	0.230	0.684	0.004	0.838
S28	0.480^※	0.922	0.023	0858	0.016	0.279	0.812
S30	0.473^※	0.922	0.245	0.140	0.691	0.049	0.718
S31	0.608^※	0.921	0.302	0.201	0.664	0.121	0.768
S32	0.643^※	0.920	0.648	0.306	0.261	0.218	0.714
S33	0.560^※	0.921	0.110	0.276	0.275	0.785	0.797
S34	0.432^※	0.922	0.257	0.129	0.616	0.359	0.684
S35	0.469^※	0.922	0.383	0.878	0.277	0.288	0.823
S36	0.510^※	0.921	0.219	0.369	0.771	0.029	0.798
S37	0.473^※	0.922	0.262	0.900	0.033	0.148	0.852
S38	0.460^※	0.922	0.120	0.271	0.612	0.01	0.767
S41	0.603^※	0.921	0.373	0.888	0.056	0.177	0.895
S43	0.564^※	0.921	0.705	0.177	0.026	0.305	0.763

^※; SINS-CN: the Chinese Version of the Stressors in Student Nursing Scale; S1-S43: item 1-item 43; S1-S43: item 1-item 43; factor 1 (clinical, 12 items), factor 2 (finance, 7 items), factor 3 (confidence, 8 items), and factor 4 (education, 5 items).