Table III.II.
Showing Factor Loadings of Items on the Scale using the Principal Component Method of Extraction
| Revalidated 22-Items for Suicidal Ideation Scale |
Components | Communalities | ||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | ||
| 25. I will kill myself if things didn't improve | .777 | .248 | .181 | .698 |
| 24. I will have, if I could kill myself | .764 | .284 | .161 | .691 |
| 23. No one cares if am alive | .690 | .157 | .200 | .541 |
| 19. I believe life is not worth living | .658 | .314 | .247 | .592 |
| 20. I believe life is too rotten to continue | .648 | .265 | .364 | .622 |
| 15. Will die if I had chance | .613 | .313 | .310 | .570 |
| 11. I think death will solve the problem | .608 | .366 | .346 | .623 |
| 18. I thought of having a bad accident | .605 | .308 | .252 | .525 |
| 10. How easy it would be if dead | .588 | .397 | .311 | .601 |
| 9. I wish I were dead | .570 | .471 | .228 | .598 |
| 14. I wished I had never been born | .545 | .381 | .334 | .554 |
| 5. I am fond of writing suicide notes | .440 | .385 | .415 | .513 |
| 2. I had thoughts of killing myself | .275 | .815 | .172 | .769 |
| 3. I have the thoughts of how to kill myself | .316 | .778 | .238 | .762 |
| 1. It will have been better if not alive | .171 | .705 | .150 | .549 |
| 4. I have the thoughts of when to kill myself | .392 | .669 | .300 | .691 |
| 17. I thought of killing myself but would not | .408 | .510 | .179 | .459 |
| 6. I like telling others of intent | .094 | .174 | .809 | .694 |
| 13. I wish I had nerves | .268 | .239 | .650 | .550 |
| 12. I think others are better off | .354 | .269 | .608 | .568 |
| 21. I don't know the only way to be noticed | .445 | .059 | .563 | .518 |
| 7. I believe others will be happier if gone | .413 | .386 | .488 | .558 |
Extraction Method: Principal Component Analysis. Rotation Method: Varimax with Kaiser Normalization.