Table 3.

Exploratory factor analysis of the MEOS-VSF.

	Enhance	Inauthentic	Conceal	Worsen	Divert
Enhance 3	0.74	0.03	0.02	−0.02	−0.04
Enhance 1	0.73	0.01	−0.01	−0.01	0.03
Enhance 2	0.73	−0.03	0.00	0.01	−0.02
Enhance 4	0.69	−0.02	0.01	0.02	0.10
Inauthentic 1	0.00	0.91	−0.01	−0.13	−0.06
Inauthentic 3	0.03	0.66	−0.09	0.12	−0.07
Inauthentic 2	−0.03	0.64	−0.01	0.10	−0.04
Inauthentic 6	−0.02	0.36	0.06	0.05	0.18
Conceal 1	0.05	0.02	0.75	0.05	−0.06
Conceal 3	−0.04	0.04	0.72	−0.08	0.01
Conceal 4	0.00	−0.01	0.70	−0.06	−0.01
Conceal 2	0.02	−0.06	0.63	0.07	0.02
Worsen 6	0.05	0.06	−0.07	0.68	−0.06
Worsen 2	−0.09	0.01	0.03	0.67	0.00
Worsen 3	0.03	0.02	−0.03	0.60	0.03
Worsen 5	−0.02	−0.02	0.04	0.57	0.01
Divert 3	−0.05	−0.04	0.01	0.09	0.78
Divert 1	0.05	0.02	−0.03	−0.06	0.63
Divert 2	0.04	0.01	−0.02	−0.07	0.62
Divert 5	0.06	−0.01	0.02	0.01	0.53

The factors accounted for 47% of the variance. Pattern matrix elements are shown. Loadings ≥ 0.4 are shown in bold, below 0.4 but > 0.3 in italic. Items are numbered in order of loading size in the EFA of the full MEOS. See Table 5 for item wordings.