Table 2. Individual STS item factor loadings for 3 factor solution and derived subscales.
| STS Item: | Item # | Factor 1 | Factor 2 | Factor 3 | Subscale: alpha | Subscale Scores: Mean[SD] |
| no escape | sts38 | 0.768 | 0.206 | 0.116 | Frantic Hopelessness: 0.906 | 18.29[5.56] |
| doom | sts31 | 0.720 | 0.237 | 0.196 | ||
| helpless to change | sts26 | 0.710 | −0.025 | 0.053 | ||
| no way out | sts12 | 0.683 | 0.228 | 0.112 | ||
| will never change | sts36 | 0.670 | 0.164 | 0.189 | ||
| never be normal again | sts24 | 0.646 | 0.074 | 0.156 | ||
| dread | sts29 | 0.633 | 0.115 | 0.183 | ||
| trapped | sts27 | 0.613 | 0.185 | 0.212 | ||
| no solutions | sts42 | 0.610 | 0.200 | 0.191 | ||
| lost control to improve | sts40 | 0.538 | 0.164 | 0.221 | ||
| hopeless | sts11 | 0.527 | 0.297 | −0.007 | ||
| no exit | sts4 | 0.513 | 0.309 | 0.053 | ||
| expect the worst | sts18 | 0.464 | 0.361 | 0.05 | ||
| world closing in | sts15 | 0.446 | 0.367 | 0.274 | ||
| something horrible will happen | sts37 | 0.438 | 0.380 | 0.180 | ||
| hard to stop worrying | sts10 | 0.429 | 0.419 | −0.013 | ||
| can’t think because too many thoughts | sts13 | 0.411 | 0.185 | 0.207 | ||
| unbearable inner pain | sts6 | 0.369 | 0.329 | 0.104 | ||
| inner pain must stop | sts33 | 0.352 | 0.301 | 0.151 | ||
| headache from too many thoughts | sts41 | 0.003 | 0.676 | 0.215 | Ruminative Flooding: 0.865 | 15.01[4.56] |
| head pressure from thinking too much | sts39 | 0.145 | 0.653 | 0.319 | ||
| can’t stop upsetting thoughts | sts35 | 0.321 | 0.589 | 0.134 | ||
| head explode from too many thoughts | sts7 | 0.069 | 0.575 | 0.293 | ||
| many thoughts | sts3 | 0.212 | 0.544 | 0.076 | ||
| can’t sleep because thoughts | sts14 | 0.116 | 0.536 | 0.183 | ||
| racing thoughts | sts21 | 0.204 | 0.533 | 0.298 | ||
| ideas turning over and over | sts30 | 0.394 | 0.514 | 0.177 | ||
| thoughts confused | sts2 | 0.291 | 0.483 | 0.117 | ||
| thoughts won’t go away | sts34 | 0.318 | 0.482 | 0.120 | ||
| suddenly frightened | sts17 | 0.149 | 0.457 | 0.390 | ||
| wake up tired | sts1 | 0.266 | 0.401 | 0.140 | ||
| worry bad things may happen | sts9 | 0.206 | 0.318 | 0.129 | ||
| something happing to body | sts20 | 0.048 | 0.125 | 0.788 | Near Psychotic Somatization: 0.797 | 5.59[3.73] |
| strange sensations | sts19 | 0.076 | 0.144 | 0.643 | ||
| thing look strange | sts8 | −0.016 | 0.349 | 0.546 | ||
| indescribable sensations | sts25 | 0.189 | 0.127 | 0.542 | ||
| felt blood rushing in veins | sts28 | 0.058 | 0.296 | 0.523 | ||
| unusual sensations | sts5 | 0.21 | 0.119 | 0.499 | ||
| something physically wrong | sts32 | 0.207 | 0.059 | 0.476 | ||
| world is different | sts16 | 0.243 | 0.151 | 0.475 | ||
| senseless thoughts | sts23 | 0.163 | 0.236 | 0.353 | ||
| no control | sts22 | 0.308 | 0.341 | 0.348 |
Extraction Method: Principal Axis Factoring. Rotation Method: Varimax with Kaiser Normalization.