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. 2015 Apr 1;9:161. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2015.00161

Table 10.

Summary of principal component analysis (PCA): Rotated pattern matrix with factor loadings, ordered according to the factor loadings per component.

Questionnaire item Component
1 2 3 4 5 6
Perception 1 – melodies without lyrics 0.85 –016 –0.19 –0.04 –0.07 0.10
Perception 3 – piano tones 0.84 –0.00 –0.08 –0.01 0.02 –0.02
Perception 2 – off/wrong singing 0.72 0.01 –0.02 0.15 0.07 –0.06
Clapping 0.69 0.13 0.20 –0.22 –0.09 0.17
Singing 3 – notice wrong singing and correct it 0.52 –0.07 0.10 0.37 0.06 –0.08
Perception 4 – surrounded by music as child 0.44 0.19 0.12 0.19 –0.03 –0.12

Music education 2 – age of onset 0.01 0.90 –0.08 –0.05 –0.09 –0.02
Music education 4 – frustration 0.00 0.86 0.00 –0.04 0.00 0.03
Music education 3 – years of lessons –0.14 0.82 0.09 –0.03 –0.09 0.06
Music education 1 – type of education 0.15 0.60 0.00 0.06 0.02 –0.12
Music education 5 – still playing/singing –0.08 0.52 –0.16 0.19 0.32 0.05

Dancing 2 – quality – own assessment 0.03 –0.01 0.95 –0.06 0.00 –0.05
Dancing 1 – quantity/frequency –0.14 –0.03 0.91 0.13 0.04 0.04

Singing 1 – when alone –0.08 –0.01 0.09 0.85 –0.04 0.13
Singing 2 – in public 0.13 0.01 –0.05 0.80 –0.02 –0.01

Unmusicality 1 – family members –0.15 –0.11 –0.01 0.04 0.93 –0.01
Unmusicality 2 – qwn assessment 0.17 0.04 0.08 –0.13 0.83 0.05

Listening habits 1 – quantity listening to music –0.02 –0.02 –0.03 0.27 –0.13 0.80
Listening habits 2 – attitude toward music 0.09 0.02 0.02 –0.12 0.17 0.77

Bold indicates that this item loads onto the component given in the first line.