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. 2016 Oct-Dec;14(4):486–493. doi: 10.1590/S1679-45082016AO3732

Table 3. Main component matrix with varimax rotation forced to two factors (anxiety/stress and depression) and correlation matrix of depression anxiety and stress, in accord with Depression Anxiety and Stress Scale-21.

Item Factor Loading Correlation


Anxiety/stress Depression Anxiety/stress Depression
S18 0.64   0.60 0.40
S11 0.63   0.61 0.39
S14 0.63   0.59 0.38
A09 0.62   0.60 0.37
A20 0.62   0.59 0.43
A07 0.60   0.47 0.22
S06 0.59   0.54 0.35
S12 0.58   0.61 0.40
A15 0.57   0.53 0.41
S08 0.57   0.50 0.25
A19 0.57   0.62 0.31
S01 0.53   0.61 0.32
A04 0.49   0.57 0.28
A02 0.47   0.46 0.23
D17   0.77 0.44 0.70
D21   0.77 0.46 0.75
D10   0.71 0.35 0.69
D03   0.62 0.27 0.61
D13   0.58 0.36 0.56
D05   0.57 0.60 0.71
D16   0.52 0.39 0.62
% Explained variance (total: 40.44) 30.92 9.52    

A: anxiety items; D: depression items; S: stress items.

Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin measure of sampling adequacy: 0.885; Bartlett’s test of sphericity (approximate χ2): p=0.000 2106.950.