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Table 1 A summary of scales of the standard Chinese SF12v2 in adolescents

From: Evaluation of internal reliability in the presence of inconsistent responses

 

Scales

 

Role emotional (RE)

Physical functioning (PF)

Mental health (MH)

Number of response categories (K)

5

3

5

Number of items

   

   Positive polarity (m+)

2

2

1

   Negative polarity (m-)

0

0

1

Number of respondents

32939

32924

33025

Mean

7.58

5.57

7.02

Variance

4.05

0.65

2.62

Floora

2.2%

1.0%

0.6%

Ceilingb

25.7%

72.7%

6.7%

Cronbach's alpha

0.87

0.67

0.33

  1. a Percentage of values that equal to the plausible minimum of the scale
  2. b Percentage of values that equal to the plausible maximum of the scale