PSPS Item | Factor loading | ||||
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" Because of the pain... | Factor 1 | Factor 2 | M | SD | Item-total r |
19.- I felt destroyed as a person | 0.86 | 0.04 | 1.21 | 1.43 | 0.86 |
16.- I felt defeated | 0.86 | -0.05 | 1.39 | 1.47 | 0.86 |
5.- I felt that my confidence had been knocked out of me | 0.85 | 0.02 | 1.81 | 1.39 | 0.85 |
24.- I felt humiliated and that I was losing my sense of inner dignity | 0.85 | -0.08 | 1.32 | 1.41 | 0.85 |
3.- I felt that life had treated me like a punching bag | 0.83 | 0.14 | 1.17 | 1.52 | 0.83 |
1.- I felt defeated by life | 0.83 | 0.09 | 1.42 | 1.57 | 0.83 |
14.- I felt I was losing my will power | 0.82 | -0.12 | 1.28 | 1.45 | 0.81 |
9.- I felt I was one of life's losers | 0.82 | 0.17 | 1.09 | 1.33 | 0.82 |
23.- I felt completely at the mercy of what was happening to me | 0.81 | 0.13 | 1.21 | 1.37 | 0.81 |
12.- I felt I had lost important battles in life | 0.81 | -0.07 | 1.34 | 1.43 | 0.81 |
2.- I felt that I had lost my standing in the world | 0.80 | -0.21 | 1.24 | 1.32 | 0.80 |
15.- I didn't care what happened to me anymore | 0.80 | 0.19 | 1.18 | 1.38 | 0.80 |
20.- I felt like I wanted to die | 0.80 | 0.20 | 0.96 | 1.24 | 0.80 |
13.- I felt that there was no fight left on me | 0.79 | 0.26 | 1.21 | 1.39 | 0.79 |
6.- I didn't feel able to deal with things that life threw at me | 0.79 | -0.25 | 1.08 | 1.33 | 0.78 |
18.- In my mind, I gave up | 0.77 | 0.28 | 1.10 | 1.24 | 0.77 |
21.- I felt like I was losing my inner resistance | 0.77 | -0.30 | 1.29 | 1.38 | 0.77 |
10.- I felt that I had given up | 0.76 | 0.26 | 0.96 | 1.26 | 0.76 |
8.- I felt completely knocked out of action | 0.76 | 0.32 | 1.89 | 1.52 | 0.76 |
11.- I felt down and out | 0.74 | 0.35 | 1.27 | 1.42 | 0.74 |
17.- I felt less like a human being | 0.72 | -0.27 | 0.91 | 1.21 | 0.72 |
4.- I felt powerless | 0.72 | 0.37 | 1.67 | 1.45 | 0.71 |
7.- I felt I had sunk to the bottom of the ladder | 0.70 | 0.39 | 1.34 | 1.39 | 0.70 |
22.- I felt like an object | 0.69 | -0.43 | 0.92 | 1.14 | 0.68 |