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. 2023 Jul 12;20(7):625–634. doi: 10.30773/pi.2023.0011

Table 5.

Exploratory factor analysis of the K-CAPE-42 items

Items Subdomain Full sample
1 2 3
1 Feel sad Depressive 0.646
7 Feeling persecuted Pos (Paranoia) 0.415
9 Pessimistic about everything Depressive 0.729
12 No future for you Depressive 0.821
14 Do not want to live anymore Depressive 0.711
18 Lacking in motivation to do things Neg (Avolition) 0.747
19 Cry about nothing Depressive 0.538
21 Lacking in energy Neg (Avolition) 0.620
22 People look at you oddly Pos (Paranoia) 0.441
23 Empty mind Neg (Avolition) 0.543
25 Spending days doing nothing Neg (Avolition) 0.722
29 Lacking in spontaneity Neg (Soc. Withd) 0.667
35 Neglecting your appearance/personal hygiene Neg (Avolition) 0.434
36 Never getting things done Neg (Avolition) 0.690
37 Lack of hobbies/interests Neg (Avolition) 0.516
38 Feel guilty Depressive 0.542
39 Feel like a failure Depressive 0.864
40 Feel tense Depressive 0.429
2 People drop hints/say things with a double meaning Pos (Paranoia) 0.304 0.378
5 Message on TV/magazines especially for you Pos (Biz. Exp) 0.515
6 People are not what they seem to be Pos (Paranoia) 0.330
10 Conspiracy against you Pos (Paranoia) 0.545
11 Feeling destined to be someone important Pos (Grandiosity) -0.563 0.694
13 Being a very special or unusual person Pos (Grandiosity) -0.589 0.650
15 Communicate telepathically Pos (Mag. Think) 0.619
17 Electrical devices can influence the way you think Pos (Biz. Exp) 0.315
20 Believing in witchcraft/voodoo/the occult Pos (Mag. Think) 0.474
24 Thought withdrawal Pos (Biz. Exp) 0.442
26 Thoughts in your head are not your own Pos (Biz. Exp) 0.481
28 Thoughts so vivid that other people may hear them Pos (Biz. Exp) 0.505
30 Thoughts echoed Pos (Biz. Exp) 0.535
31 Feeling under the control of some force or power Pos (Biz. Exp) 0.549
33 Hearing voices Pos (Hallucination) 0.587
34 Hearing voices talk to each other Pos (Hallucination) 0.476
41 Capgras Pos (Hallucination) 0.323
42 Seeing things other people cannot see Pos (Hallucination) 0.411
3 Not very animated person Neg (Soc. Withd) 0.758
4 Not much of a talker Neg (Soc. Withd) 0.464
8 Experiencing no/few emotions Neg (Aff. Flat) 0.659
16 No interest to be with other people Neg (Soc. Withd) 0.478
27 Emotions lack intensity Neg (Aff. Flat) 0.813
32 Blunted emotions Neg (Aff. Flat) 0.862
Factor 1 Factor 2 Factor 3
SS loadings 8.296 4.968 3.068
Proportion Var 0.198 0.118 0.073
Cumulative Var 0.198 0.316 0.389

Only items with factor loadings ≥0.30 are shown. K-CAPE-42, Korean version of Community Assessment of Psychic Experience; Depressive, depressive symptoms; Pos, positive symptoms; Neg, negative symptoms; Soc. Withd, social withdrawal; Biz. Exp, bizarre experience; Mag. Think, magical thinking; Aff. Flat, affective flattening; SS loadings, the sum of squared loadings; Var, variance