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Table 1 Study instrument and internal consistency of the subscales after conducting exploratory factor analysis and deleting items

From: Why do graduates choose to work in a less attractive specialty? A cross-sectional study on the role of personal values and expectations

 

Subscales

Example item

Cronbach’s α

Demographic information (part A, 9 items)

Personal information

Current working place

Time of making decision

Gender, marital status, number of children…

Place of work, level of organization

Time of making decision of specialty choice

NA

Job choice and staying in preventive medicine (PM) (part B, 4 items)

Choosing PM job

I accepted this job because it relates the most to PM.

.67

Continuing in PM

I wish to work in the PM field if I have the opportunity.

NA

Motivational factors (part C, 35 items)

Happy with job and working conditions

I am satisfied with my job in terms of working conditions.

.85

Happy with manager

My manager always stands behind the workers.

.94

Happy with colleagues

I am satisfied with the people I speak and work with.

.93

Happy with promotion

I am satisfied with the opportunity of being promoted at this job.

.87

Happy with pay

My salary is good when it is compared with the wage of other physicians who work at similar positions in other specialties.

.91

Happy with reward

I feel respected and supported while working with people in the community.

.72

Happy with continued education

My opportunities for continued education are appropriate when compared to physicians who work in other specialties.

.90

Multiple roles in life (part D, 28 items)

Child role

I tried to find a job with which I can afford to support my parents and family in my hometown.

.62

Parental role

I tried to find a job which allowed me to have time to take care of my children.

.60

Marital role

I tried to find a job which allowed me to have time for my spouse.

.76

Worker role

I tried to find a job that was interesting and exciting to me.

.74

Homecare role

I tried to find a job which allowed me to have time to manage and care for my home.

.72

Citizen role

I tried to find a job in which I can contribute to the community where I originate from.

.58

  1. Note: On the parental and marital role subscales, participants who were not married or had no children indicated “Not applicable” for all items, which caused missing values when calculating the mean score of the subscales. To prevent violations of the reliability of a regression model cause by a small sample size, we did not use these two subscales in further analyses but two equivalent variables: number of children (1 = no child, 2 = have one child, 3 = have two children, 4 = have more than two children) and marriage status (1 = single, 2 = married/have a partner)
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