Validation of Mini-Mental Adjustment to Cancer scale in a Moroccan sample of breast cancer women

BMC Cancer

Table 2 Factor structure of the Moroccan version of Mini-MAC (24 items)

Items ^a	Factors ^b					h2	Item–total correlation	Alpha
Items ^a	HH	AP	CA	FS	FA	h2	Item–total correlation	Alpha
HH5	.86	−.13	−.12	.00	.05	.64	.74	.91
HH4	.76	.10	.02	−.02	.09	.65	.73
HH7	.71	.08	−.01	−.11	−.05	.69	.78
HH6	.69	.06	.12	.16	−.16	.56	.76
HH2	.62	.16	.05	−.01	.00	.54	.70
HH8	.60	.11	.02	−.15	−.12	.62	.83
HH1	.60	.17	−.05	−.08	.02	.56	.76
AP12	−.01	.81	−.01	.03	.02	.63	.78	.88
AP14	.03	.80	.03	.02	−.11	.71	.84
AP11	.00	.78	−.08	−.02	.10	.59	.75
AP16	.06	.73	.04	.01	−.04	.60	.78
AP13	.05	.65	.05	−.03	−.01	.47	.68
AP10	.22	.49	−.01	−.04	.09	.41	.63
AP15	.25	.37	.02	.03	−.22	.42	.57
CA24	.06	−.09	.95	−.02	−.04	.91	.91	.88
CA23	−.02	.06	.89	.04	.06	.91	.84
CA21	−.08	.05	.88	.00	.03	.89	.87
FS17	−.04	.02	−.02	.91	.02	.85	.91	.94
FS18	.00	.07	−.05	.90	−.01	.76	.84
FS19	.03	−.09	.15	.78	.04	.77	.87
FS20	−.26	−.17	.10	.34	.17	.51	.57
FA26	.01	.05	.03	−.06	.80	.60	.70	.71
FA29	.01	−.11	.05	.19	.70	.25	.80
FA28	−.28	.15	.07	.04	.34	.70	.50
Eigenvalue	4.26	3.82	2.66	2.72	1.62
Variance (total = 63%)	18%	16%	11%	11%	7%

^aItem number in the Moroccan Mini-MAC.
^bAbbreviations for the original Mini-MAC subscales: AP Anxious Preoccupation; HH Helpless–Hopeless; FS Fighting Spirit; FA Fatalism; CA Cognitive Avoidance.

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