Table A3.
Principal component analysis applied to question F1.
| Question F1: How do you think the pandemic situation will evolve in Italy in the next two months? | |||
| Scale: From 1 (Strongly Agree) to 5 (Strongly Disagree) | |||
| Answer | c.PC1: Generic Pessimism | c.PC2: Optimism toward COVID-19 Vaccine | c.PC3: Pessimism toward Others’ Behavior |
| COVID-19 will not be dangerous anymore, because everyone will be vaccinated. | −0.553 | −0.654 | 0.111 |
| COVID-19 will be still dangerous, because of the new variants. | −0.654 | 0.185 | 0.664 |
| COVID-19 will be still dangerous, because of many people not vaccinated. | −0.609 | 0.475 | −0.411 |
| COVID-19 will not be dangerous anymore, because the virus will become weaker. | −0.638 | −0.461 | −0.345 |
| COVID-19 will be still dangerous, because of many people not respecting social distancing. | −0.672 | 0.365 | - |
| Eigenvalues | 1.963 | 1.033 | 0.742 |
| VAF | 39.266 | 20.665 | 14.840 |
| Cumulative VAF | 39.270 | 59.930 | 74.770 |