A Preliminary Report of the Psychometric Properties of the Epistemic Beliefs Inventory

Table 5: Rotated Factor Matrix

			Factor
	1	2	3	4	5
Q15	.703	.032	.109	-.015	-.059
Q16	.694	.091	.075	-.128	.065
Q19	.674	.069	.048	-.131	-.155
Q12	.576	.023	.173	.032	-.009
Q5	.553	-.044	.040	-.050	.148
Q8	.481	-.001	.092	.156	.243
Q3	.444	.094	.135	.083	.266
Q7	.418	.057	.024	.041	-.178
Q25	.027	.716	-.114	.038	-.033
Q21	.011	.697	.111	-.274	.080
Q29	-.006	.643	.210	-.315	.022
Q23	.006	.624	-.061	.099	-.114
Q26	.178	.596	-.003	.191	.039
Q28	.067	.566	.060	-.082	-.095
Q22	.056	.563	-.127	.065	.087
Q14	.119	-.189	-.170	.018	.078
Q10	.224	-.018	.708	.041	-.221
Q11	-.066	-.036	.627	.050	-.006
Q9	.288	.075	.564	-.012	.232
Q13	.277	.010	.549	-.012	-.378
Q18	.194	-.076	.534	.018	.080
Q17	.277	.020	.435	.246	.109
Q1	.029	.040	.412	.098	-.058
Q32	-.086	-.028	.077	.746	-.129
Q30	.020	-.093	.056	.669	.069
Q27	.004	.064	.083	.579	-.226
Q24	-.003	.127	-.039	.563	.215
Q31	-.003	-.172	.267	.517	.112
Q4	.154	.045	.107	.045	.589
Q6	.234	.017	.059	-.035	.575
Q20	.173	-.056	-.165	.016	.450
Q2	-.183	-.010	.309	.145	.450

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