Table 3.
Results from a principal component analysis of motivations for social sharing.
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| SOCIAL SHARING MOTIVATIONS ITEMS | FACTOR LOADING | ||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | |
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| Factor 1: Emotion expression and social support seeking | |||
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| To relieve myself. | .81 | –.02 | –.04 |
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| To be understood. | .78 | –.00 | .21 |
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| To be supported. | .77 | –.05 | .20 |
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| To express my emotions. | .72 | .28 | –.22 |
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| To be listened to. | .70 | .15 | .09 |
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| Factor 2: Social sense-making | |||
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| To find out what the other person thought about it. | –.03 | .87 | .04 |
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| To find out how the other person felt about it. | .18 | .77 | –.14 |
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| To get an outside perspective. | –.05 | .73 | .19 |
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| To reflect on this subject. | .23 | .65 | –.21 |
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| To find out what the other person and I agreed on. | .13 | .63 | .30 |
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| Factor 3: Bonding | |||
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| To arouse interest. | .09 | .07 | .79 |
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| To be taken into account. | .29 | –.13 | .77 |
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| To find out what the other person and I disagreed about. | –.06 | .43 | .66 |
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Note. N = 248. The extraction method was principal component analysis with an oblique (Oblimin) rotation. Factor loadings in bold denote each item’s corresponding component.