Table 3.

Unstandardized Factor Loadings from Baseline Models of the DASS-21 Depression and Anxiety Scales among Cancer Patients and Non-Cancer Control Participants

DASS-21 item	Cancer (n = 376)	Non-Cancer (n = 207)
Depression
I couldn’t seem to experience any positive feeling at all	1.03*	1.19*
I found it difficult to work up the initiative to do things	0.97*	0.84*
I felt that I had nothing to look forward to	1.17*	1.22*
I felt down-hearted and blue	1.21*	1.18*
I was unable to become enthusiastic about anything	1.14*	1.16*
I felt I wasn’t worth much as a person	0.89*	0.91*
I felt that life was meaningless	0.72*	0.92*
Anxiety
I was aware of dryness of my mouth	1.01*	1.11*
I experienced breathing difficulty (e.g., excessively rapid breathing, breathlessness in the absence of physical exertion)	0.99*	0.90*
I experienced trembling (e.g., in the hands)	1.17*	1.25*
I was worried about situations in which I might panic and make a fool of myself	1.46*	1.85*
I felt I was close to panic	1.54*	1.58*
I was aware of the action of my heart in the absence of physical exertion (e.g., sense of heart rate increase, heart missing a beat)	0.83*	1.32*
I felt scared without any good reason	1.20*	1.56*

^*p < .05.