Psychometric properties of the Persian version of the Cancer attitude inventory

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Table 3 Item-scale correlation matrix for the Five CAI measures (n = 410)

CAI Dimensions I (item number)	I	H	FC	BCI	FD
I (item number)
Item 14	.789	.488	.489	.545	.567
Item 23	.794	.466	.549	.560	.534
Item 25	.784	.467	.520	.540	.488
Item 26	.781	.460	.499	.573	.547
Item 18	.772	.483	.495	.509	.472
Item 38	.791	.443	.518	.491	.476
Item 33	.791	.498	.519	.496	.498
Item 36	.786	.412	.504	.530	.489
Item 13	.664	.464	.469	.403	.434
Item 39	.789	.528	.570	.510	.544
Item 12	.750	.543	.599	.598	.502
Item 2	.714	.540	.566	.603	.472
H (item number)
Item 6	.454	.768	.434	.434	.449
Item 15	.499	.820	.520	.452	.567
Item 16	.444	.809	.538	.441	.563
Item 5	.484	.559	.772	.434	.510
Item 28	.459	.783	.544	.473	.535
Item 10	.428	.719	.526	.407	.507
Item 30	.520	.805	.583	.510	.566
Item 29	.502	.793	.561	.499	.542
Item 11	.420	.718	.485	.446	.483
Item 41	.465	.734	.536	.474	.518
Item 31	.471	.689	.407	.483	.412
FC (item number)
Item 1	.539	.565	.806	.471	.591
Item 22	.502	.430	.775	.448	.492
Item 4	.496	.569	.771	.449	.516
Item 34	.572	.600	.785	.503	.607
Item 17	.555	.531	.792	.515	.563
Item 24	.477	.449	.731	.449	.574
BCI (item number)
Item 21	.411	.419	.434	.745	.474
Item 20	.416	.473	.406	.735	.447
Item 27	.544	.441	.492	.767	.486
Item 37	.653	.514	.522	.790	.529
Item 3	.522	.505	.540	.741	.533
Item 40	.453	.451	.418	.634	.428
Item 35	.528	.468	.484	.672	.453
FD (item number)
Item 19	.502	.514	.533	.522	.830
Item 32	.520	.542	.537	.505	.824
Item 9	.575	.573	.622	.555	.852
Item 8	.587	.622	.651	.584	.848
Item 7	.535	.546	.639	.492	.795

Note¹: I: Isolation, H: Helplessness, FC: Fear of consequence, BCI: Belief of control and independence, FD: Fear of death
Note²: The bold data reflect the higher item-scale correlation for the five structures of CAI questionnaire

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