Table 2.

Item factor loadings from exploratory factor analysis

Factor	Items	Mean (SD)	Factor				Communality
			1	2	3	4
Intrinsic Motivation	Q5.	3.69(1.1)	0.850	− 0.095	0.264	− 0.104	0.811
	Q6.	3.98(1.06)	0.871	− 0.122	0.279	0.071	0.824
	Q13.	4.01(1.06)	0.875	− 0.017	0.216	0.006	0.806
	Q14.	3.98(1.03)	0.810	− 0.068	− 0.012	0.183	0.724
	Q18.	3.99(0.99)	0.752	− 0.068	− 0.109	0.284	0.695
	Q21.	3.97(1.01)	0.716	− 0.032	0.158	0.189	0.617
Introjected Motivation	Q1.	3.21(1.23)	0.150	0.218	0.643	0.287	0.574
	Q11.	31.3(1.22)	0.322	0.109	0.697	0.187	0.644
	Q15.	2.34(1.42)	0.059	0.354	0.505	0.025	0.410
	Q16.	3.05(1.34)	0.054	0.137	0.752	0.168	0.566
	Q17.	3.22(1.33)	0.208	0.086	0.641	0.311	0.564
External Motivation	Q2.	2.98(1.27)	− 0.020	0.140	0.188	0.591	0.441
	Q7.	3.63(1.21)	0.242	− 0.088	0.230	0.660	0.553
	Q22.	2.5(1.65)	− 0.002	0.158	0.220	0.527	0.406
	Q24.	3.86(1.08)	0.293	− 0.003	0.046	0.624	0.530
Amotivation	Q3.	2.63(1.5)	− 0.019	0.606	0.153	0.101	0.407
	Q4.	2.36(1.42)	− 0.096	0.724	0.258	− 0.117	0.563
	Q10.	2.04(1.38)	− 0.188	0.738	0.270	0.055	0.629
	Q12.	2.61(1.37)	0.060	0.609	0.079	0.076	0.421
	Q20.	2.62(1.44)	− 0.169	0.817	− 0.090	0.115	0.620
Eigenvalue			4.379	2.773	2.679	1.907
Percentage of the variance %			21.895	13.864	13.394	9.539