A.

Factor loadings derived from a 6-factor solution with promax rotation (bolded items reflecting DSM-IV criteria for a depressive episode, and bolded italicized items reflecting those with a factor loading <0.40 in absolute value).

	Depressive mood	Psychomotor retardation	Suicidality	Drug/illness- related depression	Psychotic features	Hopelessness
10. persistently sad or empty, blue or down in the dumps	0.553	0.094	−0.017	−0.012	0.022	−0.191
4. serious, introverted or gloomy	0.538	−0.119	0.048	−0.099	0.087	0.025
13. purposeless, as if everything had lost its significance	0.512	0.135	0.081	−0.095	−0.067	−0.184
25. lost interest in hobbies or sport	0.509	0.073	−0.012	−0.129	−0.058	0.059
3. lonely	0.494	−0.062	−0.033	0.102	0.097	0.054
12. constantly complaining	0.466	−0.025	−0.317	−0.120	0.228	−0.090
6. deeply annoyed	0.465	−0.065	−0.056	−0.091	0.069	0.094
22. difficulty making new friends	0.455	−0.045	0.058	−0.098	−0.109	0.090
8. lost your capacity to laugh, have fun, enjoy your life?	0.448	0.030	0.208	−0.132	0.083	−0.275
11. crying very easily	0.438	−0.078	0.071	−0.100	0.079	−0.151
15. nothing you put on looked or felt right	0.431	0.095	−0.150	−0.059	0.047	−0.085
5. bored	0.413	−0.088	0.017	−0.157	0.065	0.090
7. the littlest thing could make you sad?	0.413	0	0.021	−0.016	0.122	0.047
26. indifferent about everything that happened to you or your family	0.401	0.105	−0.097	−0.074	−0.158	0.079
1. frustrated and defeated	0.393	0.020	−0.030	0.105	0.166	−0.019
27. lost interest or pleasure in all or almost all the things you usually enjoyed	0.372	0.194	0.135	−0.087	−0.091	0.077
21. lost pleasure in your social life	0.370	0.088	0.096	−0.081	−0.167	0.126
2. nostalgic	0.351	−0.105	0.042	0.083	0.150	−0.061
23. lost interest in your romantic life	0.349	0.039	0.053	−0.138	−0.180	0.120
9. you found it unusually hard to take rejections, particularly those involving friendships or romantic relationships?	0.337	−0.055	−0.067	−0.031	0.203	0.068
14. lost interest in how you looked	0.325	0.199	0.113	−0.125	−0.119	−0.211
84. disappointed in yourself	0.206	0.150	0.126	0.077	0.136	0.189
153. appetite decrease	0.198	−0.010	−0.017	0.030	−0.175	0.079
151. craving sweets or carbohydrates	0.178	−0.054	−0.109	−0.030	−0.012	0.076
59, physically “slowed down”	−0.096	0.646	−0.191	−0.189	0.082	0.032
58. difficulty starting to do anything	0.088	0.583	−0.214	−0.014	−0.062	0.205
60. speech or thinking seemed slowed down	0.080	0.569	−0.129	−0.056	−0.099	0.134
62. passive, sluggish	0.105	0.563	−0.094	0.097	−0.049	0.110
65. fatigued weak, or tired for the smallest task	0.081	0.499	0.079	−0.049	0.023	0.144
63. trouble getting out of bed in the morning	−0.042	0.470	0.066	0.097	−0.146	0.124
61. time as passing very slowly, hanging heavy	0.064	0.469	−0.047	−0.026	0.093	0.098
89. your housework/performance deteriorated	0.021	0.435	0.031	0.062	−0.033	0.133
64, difficulty take to care of yourself	0.119	0.426	0.073	0.008	−0.095	0.111
90. difficulty making even minor decisions	0.123	0.388	−0.140	0.085	0.228	0.135
132. difficult to work in the early morning	−0.013	0.387	0.006	0.037	−0.110	0.099
92. mentally dull or confused	−0.058	0.335	0.026	−0.159	0.124	0.135
91. trouble thinking or concentrating	−0.064	0.308	−0.078	−0.048	0.233	0.137
101. using sleep as an escape	0.079	0.267	0.081	0.072	0.015	0.148
88. problems with your memory	−0.015	0.237	−0.024	−0.042	0.092	0.113
66. difficulty to sit still or lie down	−0.103	0.217	−0.113	0.006	0.190	0.084
142. need much more sleep	−0.065	0.213	0.017	0.043	−0.101	0.113
138. you felt sleepy all the time	−0.033	0.210	−0.087	0.072	0.051	0.117
106. suicide attempt	−0.002	−0.167	0.684	−0.021	−0.016	0.199
105. specific plan to hurt or kill yourself	0.117	−0.133	0.576	0.032	0.015	0.195
104. want to die or hurt yourself	0.123	−0.104	0.569	−0.025	0.084	0.237
107. suicide attempt requiring medical attention	0.031	−0.086	0.563	−0.107	0.021	0.181
103. wishing not to wake up in the morning	0.010	0.002	0.443	0.030	0.087	0.226
102. life was not worth living	0.198	0.071	0.382	−0.001	−0.022	0.207
155. difficulty becoming sexually aroused	−0.008	0.099	−0.148	0.029	−0.098	0.097
19. depressed when stopping any of these substances	0.144	0.020	0.009	−0.680	−0.030	0.113
18. depressed when drinking lots of alcohol or using substances	0.231	−0.186	0.081	−0.652	−0.176	0.200
20. became depressed as a result of using alcohol, sleeping pills, anti–anxiety drugs, nicotine, caffeine, stimulants or similar substances even though you took them in order to feel better	0.107	−0.013	0.113	−0.606	−0.157	0.161
17. depressed when taking medications	0.164	0.038	−0.285	−0.563	0	0.128
98. heard voices clearly	−0.440	0.271	0.197	−0.440	0.152	0.078
16. depressed during physical illnesses	0.178	0.073	−0.233	−0.440	0.051	0.040
140. repeatedly wake up in the middle of the night and had difficulty falling sleep	−0.264	−0.298	−0.040	−0.306	0.199	0.094
141. repeatedly wake up much earlier	−0.193	−0.242	−0.026	−0.266	0.166	0.077
154. less sexually active	−0.017	−0.041	0.045	−0.179	−0.120	0.091
152. appetite increased	0.046	0.031	0.061	−0.172	−0.164	0.097
150. no food that appealed	0.011	0.144	0.072	−0.167	−0.131	0.091
95. you felt surrounded by hostility, as if everybody was against you	0.087	−0.051	0.003	0.088	0.545	0.155
96. everyone was talking about you	0.085	−0.035	−0.054	−0.027	0.507	0.134
94.others were causing all of your problems	0.092	−0.156	−0.002	0.081	0.478	0.096
97. heard voices	−0.313	0.081	0.174	−0.368	0.369	0.092
83. very vulnerable	0.067	0.166	0.082	0.111	0.365	0.176
93. you felt guilty or remorseful	0.036	0.026	0.088	0.092	0.321	0.182
85. body transformed	0.080	0.078	0.030	−0.152	0.257	0.088
87. need to take refuge in religion or player?	−0.075	−0.070	0.064	−0.063	0.231	0.085
139. repeatedly difficulty falling sleep	−0.205	−0.067	−0.136	−0.096	0.226	0.090
82. preoccupied with yourself and your own problems, thoughts and feelings	−0.013	0.084	0.159	0.201	0.222	0.150
81. hypercritical or skeptical	0.183	−0.030	−0.006	0.111	0.186	0.109
86. very preoccupied with money	0.131	0.051	0.026	−0.117	0.182	0.083
99. gloomy future	0.069	0.138	0.124	0.096	0.114	0.183
100. wishing to run away from your current life	0.152	0.045	0.113	0.105	0.133	0.153