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Table 4 Comparative Analysis of Exploratory Factor Analysis using Eigenvalue Criterion and Parallel Analysis using Random Data

From: Designing and psychometric properties of the hospitalized patients’ spiritual needs questionnaire (HPSNQ) in the medical-surgical hospital setting

Number of factors extracted

Eigenvalues from actual data set

Means Eigenvalues for random data set

95% percentile of random eigenvalues

1

12.000

1,812850

1,898070

2

5.010

1,716852

1,793879

3

4.000

1,646263

1,703515

4

3.000

1,586814

1,642345

5

1.091

1,534328

1,579471