Table 5.

Overall number of participants and (percentages) for each LSHS factor according to prevalence, frequency of occurrence, perceived degree of control, and affective content.

Factor	Prevalencea	Frequencyb (rare-often)	Controlc (low-high)	Affective contentd (negative-positive)
I.	36 (10%)	5–28 (1–8%)	34–2 (10–0.5%)	2–32 (0.5–9%)
II.	92 (26%)	2–76 (0.6–21%)	84–3 (24–0.7%)	1–86 (0.3–24%)
III.	148 (42%)	9–116 (2–33%)	137–5 (39–1%)	7–126 (2–35%)

^aPercentage of participants who answered “possibly applies to me” or “definitely applies to me” (3 or 4 points).

^bPercentage of participants who answered 1 “it occurs very rarely” (rare) and 5 “it occurs very often” (often).

^cLow control is represented by the percentage of participants who answered “it is very difficult to cease the experience” and “it is very difficult to avoid the experience,” whereas high control is represented by the percentage of participants who answered “it is very easy to cease the experience” and “it is very easy to avoid the experience.”

^dPercentage of participants who answered “the experience is very negative” (negative) and “the experience is very positive” (positive).