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. 2017 May 15;8:775. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00775

Table 1.

Factor Loadings for the PAGE-R (Revised Exceptional Experiences Questionnaire) items with a 3-factor solution.

Item No. Item F1 F2 F3
ODD BELIEFS
20 Anticipation of future events 0.87 −0.42 0.13
19 Meaningful coincidences 0.82 0.08 −0.14
18 Reading thoughts and feelings 0.74 0.07 −0.04
22 Recognition of a hidden order 0.73 0.33 −0.20
9 Vivid imagination 0.65 0.11 −0.10
23 Experiencing past dreams 0.65 −0.22 0.26
3 Feeling a presence 0.65 0.09 0.14
21 Déjà-vus 0.62 −0.15 0.14
10 Strange thoughts 0.55 0.41 −0.10
17 Spontaneous knowledge of past events 0.55 0.17 0.15
7 Inexplicably changing environment 0.54 −0.14 0.35
DISSOCIATIVE ANOMALOUS PERCEPTIONS
32 External control of the body −0.19 1.05 −0.06
27 Autonomous body activity −0.20 0.89 −0.03
25 Inexplicable bodily alterations 0.08 0.74 −0.19
30 Inability to move or speak 0.34 0.62 0.44
13 Alienations to own personality 0.29 0.62 −0.10
14 Inexplicable somatic sensations 0.14 0.54 0.16
*12 Alienations to own feelings or moods 0.34 0.44 0.03
16 Manipulated inner experience 0.27 0.42 0.23
*28 Out of body experiences 0.36 0.38 0.05
HALLUCINATORY ANOMALOUS PERCEPTIONS
5 Inexplicable noises 0.01 −0.21 0.94
4 Hypnagogic perceptions −0.10 0.08 0.81
31 Molestation by invisible agents −0.22 0.21 0.76
15 Encounters during sleep 0.31 −0.27 0.70
29 Attacks in hypnagogic states −0.30 0.49 0.67
11 Hearing noises or voices in the head −0.03 0.30 0.60
1 Inexplicable visual perceptions 0.33 −0.03 0.55
2 Autonomously acting objects −0.06 0.36 0.51
26 Touches by invisible agents 0.18 0.25 0.47
*8 Extraordinarily connected events 0.35 0.06 0.40
*24 Occult practices 0.31 0.16 0.33

Factor loadings greater than absolute 0.32 are in boldface (Tabachnick and Fidell, 2012). Item 6 (olfactory sensations) did not load significantly on any of the factors. When using oblique rotations, factor loadings can be greater than one as they are not correlations (Williams and Child, 2003.

*

Items not included in the corresponding subscales.