The Short Anxiety Screening Test in Greek: translation and validation

Table 6 Factor analysis for the symptoms: rotated component matrix for three factors

		Rotation sums of squared loadings
Components		Variance of factor	Eigenvalues	Degree of explanation, %	Cronbach α
Factor I (somatic symptoms and autonomic arousal)	Item 6	0.676	2.307	23.074	0.699
	Item 7	0.761
	Item 9	0.611
	Item 10	0.745
Factor II (symptoms of tension and distress)	Item 1	0.809	1.837	18.374	0.642
	Item 2	0.461
	Item 8	0.838
Factor III (mental state symptoms: fears and concerns)	Item 3	0.430	1.818	18.183	0.618
	Item 4	0.860
	Item 5	0.810

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