Psychometric evaluation of the anticipatory grief scale in a sample of family caregivers in the context of palliative care

Table 4 Results from the exploratory factor analysis (unweighted least square) of the original Anticipatory Grief Scale (n = 270)

Item numbers	Factors and factor loadings^a				h2^b
Item numbers	I	II	III	IV	h2^b
1	0.648		0.302		0.523
2				0.685	0.600
3		0.339	0.426		0.343
4			0.619		0.537
5				0.563	0.389
6	0.417		0.346		0.331
7		0.392	0.473		0.443
8			0.414		0.242
9		0.588			0.440
10		0.375	0.677		0.626
11			0.400	0.437	0.391
12	0.445		0.480		0.583
13		0.502		0.545	0.581
14			0.310		0.130
15	0.805				0.666
16			0.552		0.471
17					0.240
18		0.604			0.456
19				0.447	0.221
20		0.731			0.613
21	0.612	0.326			0.521
22					0.241
23	0.776				0.656
24		0.523	0.379		0.498
25	0.707				0.558
26			0.663		0.534
27			0.445		0.230
Explained variance, (%)	26.3	12.1	7.5	6.5
Cum. Variance, (%)	26.3	38.4	45.9	52.4

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