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Table 2 Item location and centralised threshold values for the set of eight items with five response categories. Entire sample of students 11, 13 and 15 years old. The lower the item location value, the more severe symptom

From: Cross-country comparisons of trends in adolescent psychosomatic symptoms – a Rasch analysis of HBSC data from four Nordic countries

Item

 

Location

Threshold 1

Threshold 2

Threshold 3

Threshold 4

It 1

Headache

0.023415

−0.786540

− 0.161090

0.130786

0.816848

It 2

Stomach-ache

−0.230490

− 0.749190

− 0.094010

−0.283000

1.126203

It 3

Backache

−0.140470

−0.023660

0.062261

−0.123770

0.085168

It 4

Feeling low

−0.085780

−0.732560

0.000632

0.059639

0.672292

It 5

Irritability or bad temper

0.482598

−1.376570

−0.376840

0.260856

1.492549

It 6

Feeling nervous

0.025897

−1.003510

− 0.264530

0.253783

1.014259

It 7

Difficulties in getting to sleep

0.271704

−0.242570

0.008973

0.143810

0.089783

It 8

Feeling dizzy

−0.346880

− 0.419110

0.244419

0.104895

0.069796

  1. Disordered thresholds marked in italics