Cultural competence/Cause of culture shock scale

Causes of culture shock scale (CCSS) by Goldstein and Keller (2015)

This scale was presented in a results table:

Table 1.
CCSS means, standard deviations, and factor loadings.
Factor	M	SD	Loading
1. Internal causes eigenvalue = 7.29; Var = 30.36%; α = .88	48.03	11.17
CCSS8 Feels uncomfortable making mistakes	5.03	1.41	0.53
CCSS10 Has poor stress management skills	3.98	1.62	0.73
CCSS11 Has difficulty making friends in the new culture	4.7	1.4	0.74
CCSS13 Finds adjusting to the new culture to be exhausting	4.69	1.44	0.51
CCSS15 Feels confused about their own identity	4	1.56	0.69
CCSS16 Lacks social support	4.42	1.5	0.6
CCSS18 Finds that their personality clashes with the host culture	4.75	1.39	0.6
CCSS19 Is emotionally unbalanced	3.64	1.51	0.75
CCSS20 Lacks skills for behaving appropriately in the host culture	4.44	1.65	0.67
CCSS21 Is prejudiced	4.11	1.67	0.7
CCSS24 Experiences changes in identity	4.3	1.28	0.62
2. External causes eigenvalue = 2.05; Var = 8.52%; α = .76	43.61	6.39
CCSS2 Is interacting with people who differ from him/herself	5.6	1.13	0.59
CCSS3 Finds that things that appear to be similar are not	5.08	1.34	0.52
CCSS5 Is in an environment where a foreign language is spoken	5.72	1.48	0.6
CCSS7 Has difficulty coping with the new environment	5.67	1.3	0.66
CCSS12 Has values that clash with those of the new culture	5.21	1.44	0.51
CCSS14 Has difficulty communicating with members of host culture	5.36	1.28	0.57
CCSS17 Lacks knowledge about the new culture	5.33	1.22	0.53
CCSS22 Is experiencing loss of familiar surroundings	5.57	1.24	0.54
Excluded Items
CCSS1 Feels rejected by members of the host culture	4.22	1.57	0.37
CCSS4 Feels distanced from members of home country	5.24	1.5	0.3
CCSS6 Thinks things are better in their home culture	4.42	1.62	0.44
CCSS9 Becomes aware of cultural differences	5.5	1.33	0.44
CCSS23 Has difficulty predicting others’ behavior	4.68	1.35	0.47