Table 1.

Component loadings of symptom ratings during most serious lifetime episode

Scale Item	Children with Child-Onset		Adolescents with Child- Onset	Adolescents with Adolescent- Onset
	Factor 1	Factor 2	Factor 1	Factor 1	Factor 2
	18.3%	10.1%	20.2%	19.5%	12.6%
Elation	0.63	−0.27	0.55	0.58	0.13
Racing Thoughts	0.58	0.03	0.31	0.23	−0.10
Increase in Goal Directed Activity	0.54	−0.16	0.38	0.65	−0.30
Accelerated Speech	0.48	0.06	0.52	0.27	0.09
Grandiosity	0.47	0.05	0.38	0.59	0.17
Increased Productivity	0.45	−0.08	0.47	0.43	−0.24
Flight of Ideas	0.45	0.11	0.47	0.39	0.27
Decreased Need for Sleep	0.43	−0.04	0.50	0.32	−0.07
Unusually Energetic	0.42	0.27	0.40	0.76	−0.09
Inappropriate Laughing	0.39	0.10	0.29	0.33	0.16
Motor Hyperactivity	0.37	0.37	0.51	0.44	0.21
Sharpened Creative Thinking	0.32	−0.10	0.24	0.20	−0.05
Uninhibited People Seeking	0.31	0.13	0.48	0.46	−0.12
Irritability	−0.16	0.70	0.44	−0.19	0.37
Mood Lability	−0.17	0.64	0.29	−0.26	0.51
Poor Judgment	0.10	0.50	0.36	0.36	0.39
Distractibility	0.25	0.31	0.40	0.28	0.36
Sentence Incoherence	0.12	0.31	0.41	0.01	0.54
Derailment	0.03	0.26	0.44	−0.08	0.61
Hypersexuality	0.28	0.18	0.33	0.47	−0.08
Hallucinations	0.18	0.10	0.51	−0.18	0.60
Delusions	0.08	0.02	0.34	0.13	0.52

Note: Only factor loadings ≥ 0.30 are bolded; items are sorted in descending order per factor based on the "children with child-onset" group.