Perceived social support and self-efficacy beliefs for healthy eating and physical activity among Arabic-speaking university students: adaptation and implementation of health beliefs survey questionnaire

Table 1 Perceived social support subscales in the Arabic adaptation of the health beliefs survey Questionnaire: Construct validity and internal consistency estimates (n = 285)^a

Item	Mean	SD	α	Skewness	Kurtosis	Item Loading
Overall			0.737
Increase fiber intake			0.771
Family/friends eat higher-fiber bread every day	3.03	1.430		−0.271	−1.344	0.753
Family/friends have told me they want to eat higher-fiber bread.	3.42	1.359		−0.444	−1.015	0.833
Decrease fat intake			0.758
Family/friends have told me they want to cut down on high-fat dairy foods	3.21	1.313		−0.192	−1.048	0.676
Family/friends try to eat low-fat dairy foods	3.24	1.262		− 0.286	−0.919	0.852
Increase physical activity			0.885
Family/friends find or hire a babysitter so they can increase their physical activity	2.10	1.216		0.831	−0.337	0.842
Family/friends are not more physically active because they get too hot	2.15	1.240		0.808	−0.364	0.944

^aPerceived social Support (Family and Friends) for healthier foods and physical activity subscales (1 - Strongly disagree, 5 - Strongly agree)
α - Cronbach’s alpha coefficient; item loading – factor loading from Confirmatory Factor Analysis.

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