Table 1.
Component loadings of the CNCEQ-R items (PCA, oblique rotation)
| Abbreviated description of item-related hypothetical situation (type of error; content area) | Component | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| 14. Coping with being very busy with school and social tasks (UACb; academic/social) | .832 | .011 | −.037 | −.099 | −.165 |
| 16. Coping with a move involving a new school and friends (UACb; general) | .619 | −.007 | .126 | −.109 | .039 |
| 7. Coping with feeling awful after somebody is unkind to you (UACb; general/social) | .552 | −.065 | −.168 | .030 | .318 |
| 1. Your team loses a 4-person relay race (PERa; athletic) | .105 | −.759 | .041 | −.025 | −.059 |
| 3. Your team loses a spelling contest (PERa; academic) | −.004 | −.628 | −.038 | −.046 | .290 |
| 6. You get a poor grade for a group science project (PERa; academic) | −.094 | −.551 | .150 | −.352 | −.015 |
| 9. You play basketball and score five shots and miss two easy shots (SAa; athletic) | .022 | −.173 | .734 | .183 | .075 |
| 8. You were having a good day at school until the last hour when you did poorly on a quiz (SAa; academic) | −.148 | .249 | .590 | −.311 | −.013 |
| 2. You try out for softball team and get two hits and make two outs (SAa; athletic) | .218 | −.315 | .497 | .085 | −.087 |
| 4. Some friends ask if you will try out for the school volleyball team; you tried last year and didn’t make it (OVa; athletic) | .019 | −.215 | −.148 | −.654 | −.012 |
| 13. Your class is starting a new unit in math and the last one was very hard (OVa; academic) | .232 | .085 | −.005 | −.625 | −.013 |
| 11. You forgot some things during a history test last week and now you are having a math test (OVa; academic) | .013 | −.068 | .114 | −.615 | .172 |
| 5. You call a friend to talk about homework and the friend says he/she can’t talk to you now because someone needs the phone (PERa; social) | −.132 | −.031 | −.103 | −.019 | .859 |
| 10. You bought new shoes and when you wear them your friends ask if you have new shoes (TCb; social) | .223 | .246 | .230 | −.202 | .466 |
| 15. You are giving a talk to your class and some of your classmates start laughing (TCb; social) | .333 | −.098 | .204 | .069 | .458 |
| 12. You are taking skiing lessons and the instructor tells the group that some people are not ready for the steep trails yet (PERa; athletic) | .098 | −.287 | .103 | −.099 | .417 |
Loadings > .40 are shown in bold. Component 1 = underestimation of the ability to cope (UAC); Component 2 = personalizing without mind reading (PER); Component 3 = selective abstraction (SA); Component 4 = overgeneralizing (OV); Component 5 = mind reading (MR)
aOriginal CNCEQ items: ‘personalizing’ (PER), ‘selective abstraction’ (SA), and ‘overgeneralizing’ (OV)
bNewly added items: ‘underestimation of the ability to cope’ (UAC) and ‘threat conclusion’ (TC)