Table 1. Scale Items, Principal Component Loadings, and Communalities for the Beliefs About Deserving Bad Outcomes Scales.

Scale items	Component loading	Communality
a Reverse scored.
6-item State Deservingness of Bad Outcomes Scale (Studies 1b and 2b)
1. Right now, I’d like to feel better about myself than I usually do, but deep down, I don’t feel I deserve to.	.75	.56
2. I feel unworthy of succeeding right now.	.87	.75
3. Right now, I feel I deserve to fail in life.	.88	.77
4. Right now, I feel that I deserve all of the good things life has to offer.a	.74	.55
5. Right now, I feel I deserve to do poorly in life.	.86	.75
6. Right now, I feel I deserve to do well in life.a	.81	.65
Deservingness of Failing Ability Test Scale (Study 3b)
1. I feel that I deserve to do well on the ability test.a	.68	.46
2. I feel that I deserve to do poorly on the ability test.	.78	.62
3. Right now, I feel deserving of all the good things life has to offer.a	.71	.51
4. I feel I have a good shot at achieving a good score on the ability test.a	.84	.70
5. I feel confident about my ability to perform well on the ability test.a	.82	.67
6. I feel that I deserve to fail this ability test.	.81	.65
7. Right now, I do not feel deserving of positive outcomes.	.76	.57
9-item Deservingness of Bad Outcomes Scale (Studies 5, 6, and 7 collated)
1. I feel that I deserve all of the good things life has to offer.a	.64	.60
2. I feel that I deserve to do poorly in life.	.73	.58
3. I often feel unworthy of my successes.	.76	.57
4. I often feel deserving of my failures.	.73	.66
5. When I suffer a setback, I sometimes think that I had it coming to me.	.71	.73
6. I feel that I deserve to do well in life.a	.70	.76
7. I often feel that I deserve the good breaks that happen to me.a	.70	.70
8. I often feel that I deserve the bad breaks that happen to me.	.69	.63
9. I’d like to feel better about myself than I usually do, but deep down, I don’t feel I deserve to.	.64	.51