Investigation into the metric properties of the workplace social capital questionnaire and its association with self-rated health and psychological distress amongst Greek-Cypriot registered nurses: cross-sectional descriptive study

Table 3 Item-item correlation, item-total correlations and Cronbach’s alpha coefficients if item deleted for the eight items of the Workplace Social Capital scale

	2 or 3 factor model		Item1	Item2	Item3	Item4	Item5	Item6	Item7	Item8	Item-Total	Alpha, if item deleted
Item1	S	L	1.0								0.78	0.87
Item2	S	L	0.80	1.0							0.81	0.83
Item3	C	B	0.40	0.44	1.0						0.75	0.87
Item4	S	B	0.34	0.42	0.43	1.0					0.62	0.88
Item5	C	B	0.40	0.43	0.66	0.45	1.0				0.73	0.87
Item6	S	Br	0.40	0.43	0.53	0.39	0.50	1.0			0.71	0.88
Item7	S	Br	0.50	0.48	0.53	0.42	0.44	0.64	1.0		0.74	0.87
Item8	C	L	0.69	0.72	0.50	0.41	0.52	0.39	0.47	1.0	0.80	0.86
			Cronbach’s Alpha				Cronbach’s alpha				Cronbach’s alpha
Overall SC (all items)			0.89	Structural SC (items 1,2,4,6,7)			0.82	Bonding SC (items 3,4,5)			0.76
				Cognitive SC (items 3,5,8)			0.79	Bridging SC (items 6,7)			0.78
								Linking SC (items 1,2,8)			0.89

Note: p-values for all Pearson correlations < 0.001. Item-item correlations higher than 0.60 appear in the Table in italic

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