2.5. Postabortion emotions
The six emotions measured were feelings of relief, guilt,
emptiness, closure, mourning/loss, and pride (“proud of
myself that I could do it”). We presented these in the form of
statements, for example, “After the abortion, I felt relieved”,
with a 5-point scale ranging from disagree a lot to agree a
lot. Because women can experience both positive and
negative emotions after an abortion [3,5], we created two
emotion scales. The positive emotion scale originally
consisted of the items relief, closure and pride (α=.64), but
we removed the item “pride” which increased the reliability