Table 1.
Principal Component Analysis (PCA) Factor Loadings After Orthogonal Rotation
| Derived Factors | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IDEA-R Subscale |
IDEA-R Item (Domain) | Factor 1: Identity Exploration |
Factor 2: Experimentati on/ Possibilities |
Factor 3: Independence |
M (SD) |
| E/P | 1. Time of many possibilities? | 0.37 | 0.67 | −0.05 | 3.34 (.78) |
| E/P | 2. Time of exploration? | 0.21 | 0.79 | 0.06 | 3.28 (.83) |
| E/P | 3. Time of experimentation? | 0.09 | 0.79 | 0.09 | 3.14 (.89) |
| E/P | 9. Time of open choices? | 0.44 | 0.49 | 0.34 | 3.47 (.74) |
| E/P | 11. Time of trying new things? | 0.24 | 0.52 | 0.39 | 3.46 (.75) |
| SF | 4. Time of personal freedom? | 0.16 | 0.58 | 0.4 | 3.34 (.82) |
| SF | 5. Time of responsibility for yourself? | 0.52 | 0.36 | 0.21 | 3.63 (.67) |
| SF | 6. Time of optimism? | 0.31 | 0.60 | 0.13 | 3.12 (.82) |
| SF | 8. Time of independence? | 0.38 | 0.36 | 0.53 | 3.41 (.83) |
| SF | 12. Time of focusing on yourself? | 0.44 | 0.25 | 0.41 | 3.36 (.81) |
| SF | 10. Time of providing for yourself without the help of others? | 0.29 | 0.1 | 0.67 | 3.14 (.91) |
| IE | 7. Time of finding out who you are? | 0.54 | 0.37 | 0.16 | 3.46 (.81) |
| IE | 13. Time of separating from parents? | 0.12 | 0.04 | 0.76 | 2.72 (1.01) |
| IE | 14. Time of defining yourself? | 0.59 | 0.3 | 0.37 | 3.38 (.77) |
| IE | 15. Time of planning for the future? | 0.71 | 0.23 | 0.14 | 3.63 (.66) |
| IE | 16. Time of seeking a sense of meaning? | 0.69 | 0.24 | 0.19 | 3.83 (.75) |
| IE | 17. Time of deciding on your own beliefs and values? | 0.71 | 0.25 | 0.2 | 3.45 (.77) |
| IE | 18. Time of learning to think for yourself? | 0.73 | 0.28 | 0.12 | 3.64 (.68) |
| F-IB | 19. Time of feeling adult in some ways but not in others? | 0.68 | 0.19 | 0.14 | 3.47 (.72) |
| F-IB | 20. Time of gradually becoming an adult? | 0.72 | 0.14 | 0.21 | 3.59 (.68) |
| F-IB | 21. Time of being not sure whether you have reached full adulthood? | 0.43 | 0.03 | 0.24 | 3.04 (.87) |
Note. Item factor loadings >.40 are boldface. If item loaded >.40 on more than one factor, higher loading was boldface.
Four subscales were assessed from the original Revised Inventory of the Dimensions of Emerging Adulthood (IDEA-R), abbreviations are as follows: E/P = Experimentation/Possibilities, SF = Self Focused, IE = Identity Exploration, F-IB = Feeing “In-Between.”