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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Autism Dev Disord. 2018 Dec;48(12):4231–4249. doi: 10.1007/s10803-018-3678-7

Table 5.

Factor Loadings and Communalities for the Best-fitting 9-factor EFA Solution

Item F1 F2 F3 F4 F5 F6 F7 F8 F9 h2
TAC
    1 −0.01 0.23 0.02 0.34 0.12 −0.10 0.18 0.07 0.07 0.35
    2 0.12 −0.03 −0.06 0.32 0.17 0.17 0.16 −0.02 0.00 0.33
    3 0.10 0.08 −0.18 0.47 0.07 0.11 −0.02 0.03 −0.06 0.36
    4 0.05 0.06 0.03 0.73 0.02 −0.04 0.04 −0.03 0.01 0.58
    5 0.17 −0.03 −0.06 0.25 0.24 0.11 −0.02 0.25 −0.04 0.45
    6 −0.02 0.10 0.20 0.65 0.08 −0.01 0.03 −0.04 0.01 0.58
    7 0.04 −0.08 0.25 0.57 −0.03 0.09 −0.13 0.06 0.06 0.53
TSS
    8 0.08 0.87 0.00 −0.02 −0.05 0.09 0.04 0.02 −0.03 0.80
    9 −0.05 0.91 0.04 0.01 0.06 −0.04 0.01 −0.04 0.02 0.85
    10 0.04 0.92 0.02 −0.01 0.02 −0.02 −0.02 −0.02 0.05 0.87
    11 −0.02 0.93 −0.06 0.05 −0.04 0.07 −0.02 0.04 0.00 0.88
MOV
    12 −0.07 0.02 0.09 0.06 0.93 0.01 0.00 0.05 −0.05 0.92
    13 0.19 0.01 −0.08 −0.05 0.51 0.10 −0.04 0.17 0.00 0.48
    14 0.02 −0.02 −0.01 0.06 0.72 −0.01 −0.06 0.00 0.07 0.57
USS
    15 0.01 −0.05 0.36 0.24 −0.05 −0.05 0.22 0.13 0.00 0.38
    16 0.02 0.00 0.60 0.23 0.01 0.16 0.06 −0.01 −0.05 0.60
    17 −0.07 0.04 0.66 0.30 −0.06 0.03 −0.12 0.08 0.02 0.59
    18 0.00 0.04 0.43 −0.01 −0.02 −0.05 0.14 0.26 −0.02 0.35
    19 0.21 0.00 0.31 −0.19 0.27 −0.02 0.17 −0.01 0.01 0.29
    20 −0.14 −0.04 0.70 0.01 0.02 0.07 −0.01 −0.03 −0.02 0.49
    21 0.19 0.02 0.36 −0.02 0.26 −0.14 0.04 −0.11 0.18 0.30
AFL
    22 −0.01 0.00 0.13 0.02 −0.03 0.82 0.02 0.03 0.06 0.80
    23 0.03 −0.01 0.05 −0.01 −0.03 0.13 0.84 0.02 0.06 0.82
    24 −0.06 0.04 −0.01 0.08 0.17 0.61 0.05 −0.01 0.11 0.57
    25 0.06 0.07 0.05 0.03 0.01 0.71 −0.02 −0.01 0.05 0.62
    26 −0.07 0.07 0.01 0.11 0.00 0.06 0.84 0.03 −0.01 0.81
    27 0.08 0.02 0.43 −0.14 0.10 0.35 0.22 −0.01 −0.01 0.52
LEW
    28 0.95 0.04 0.06 0.00 −0.04 0.01 −0.01 0.01 −0.14 0.88
    29 0.79 −0.04 −0.04 0.15 0.05 0.04 0.01 −0.02 0.12 0.82
    30 0.84 0.07 0.10 −0.01 0.00 −0.12 −0.02 −0.02 −0.02 0.69
    31 0.88 0.09 −0.01 −0.01 0.03 0.03 −0.03 0.01 −0.04 0.82
    32 0.76 −0.06 0.03 0.16 −0.01 −0.05 0.11 0.04 0.05 0.69
    33 0.84 −0.04 −0.08 0.02 0.00 0.10 −0.02 0.05 0.06 0.81
VAS
    34 0.01 0.05 0.00 0.09 −0.01 0.02 −0.01 0.05 0.73 0.64
    35 0.00 0.01 0.01 −0.04 0.00 0.08 0.00 0.02 0.82 0.74
    36 0.00 −0.04 0.04 0.08 0.01 0.05 0.07 0.73 0.10 0.73
    37 0.05 0.01 0.33 0.10 0.10 0.06 −0.32 0.23 0.04 0.32
    38 0.01 0.06 0.00 −0.04 0.03 −0.08 0.00 0.95 0.01 0.87

Note. Factor loadings greater than 0.4 and communalities (h2) less than 0.4 are presented in bold.

TAC = Tactile sensitivity; TSM = Taste/smell sensitivity; MOV = Movement sensitivity; USS = Underresponsive/seeks sensation; AFL = Auditory filtering; LEW = Low energy/weak; VAS = Visual/auditory sensitivity; F1–9 = Factors 1–9