Development of a scale to evaluate medical professional identity formation

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Table 3 Pattern matrix components of the five factors of the developing scale after factor analysis using Promax rotation with Kaiser normalization

Items		Pattern Matrix Component					Communalities
No.	Direction	1	2	3	4	5	Extraction
1	R	0.74	−0.01	0.14	−0.17	− 0.19	0.56
2	R	0.66	0.32	−0.14	− 0.02	− 0.10	0.54
3	R	0.62	0.04	−0.17	0.36	0.07	0.57
4	R	0.59	−0.23	0.31	0.09	−0.03	0.47
5	R	0.56	−0.17	− 0.22	0.13	0.29	0.50
6	R	0.49	0.01	0.30	−0.24	0.41	0.64
7		−0.02	0.88	−0.01	0.03	−0.04	0.77
8		−0.01	0.84	0.11	−0.06	−0.01	0.73
9		0.13	−0.03	0.70	0.11	−0.24	0.54
10		0.00	0.17	0.68	−0.10	0.05	0.53
11		−0.13	−0.05	0.52	0.37	−0.03	0.48
12		0.10	−0.09	−0.01	0.80	−0.29	0.61
13		−0.21	0.06	0.29	0.53	0.28	0.63
14		0.15	0.37	0.05	0.50	0.07	0.59
15	R	−0.04	−0.03	−0.15	−0.13	0.89	0.74
Rotation sums of squared loadings		2.552	2.240	2.026	1.979	1.568

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