A proposed method to investigate reliability throughout a questionnaire

Table 1 Estimated awareness measure (AM) in a clinical dataset using the Jalowiec Coping Scale.

Scale	# Items	Resp.	N	AM (95% BC_a)
Confrontive^a	10	639	563	0.0030 (-0.0002, 0.0096)
Evasive^a	13	642	541	0.0020 (0.0012, 0.0057)
Optimistic^a	9	643	577	0.0077 (0.0059, 0.0115)
Self-reliant^a	7	637	573	0.0001 (-0.0051, 0.0059)
Confrontive^b	12	642	549	0.0018 (-0.0026, 0.0038)
Normalising optimistic^b	10	640	582	0.0098 (0.0055, 0.0138)
Combined emotive^b	9	646	590	-0.0038 (-0.0069, -0.0004)

# Items: Number of items in selected factor structure. Resp.: Number of the 753 respondents completing at least one item in the scale. N: Number of respondents completing all items in the scale - the analyses are based on these. AM: Awareness measure.
^a Jalowiec's original scale.
^b Wahl's alternative factor structure [12].

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