Table 7.

Factor pattern (oblimin rotation) of principal components analyses based on the intercorrelations among the eight comic styles.

		Two-factor solution		Three-factor solution
Comic styles	FUPC	Factor 1	Factor 2	Factor 1	Factor 2	Factor 3
Fun	0.58	0.05	0.70	0.23	0.44	0.79
Humor	0.49	-0.19	0.85	0.05	0.84	0.42
Nonsense	0.57	0.11	0.62	0.26	0.28	0.88
Wit	0.61	0.07	0.71	0.27	0.80	0.36
Irony	0.71	0.67	0.18	0.72	0.35	0.30
Satire	0.75	0.59	0.33	0.69	0.61	0.20
Sarcasm	0.68	0.92	-0.13	0.88	0.08	0.20
Cynicism	0.68	0.90	-0.09	0.87	0.10	0.23
Correlation with F1			0.31		0.23	0.23
Correlation with F2						0.37

N = 358. FUPC, first unrotated principal component. Loadings > |0.40| in bold.