Table 3.

Standardized factor loadings of sample B (n = 788) using exploratory structural equation modeling.

Items	Factors								SMC
	Contact	Competition/performance	Distraction/catharsis	Body/appearance	Health	Fitness	Aesthetics	Risk/challenge
con1	0.78								0.70
con2	0.80								0.78
con3	0.82								0.73
con4a	0.55								0.46
con5a	0.55								0.48
comper1		0.87							0.79
comper2		0.65							0.58
comper3		0.45				0.38			0.49
discat1			0.68						0.63
discat2			0.68						0.82
discat3			0.65						0.52
discat4			0.70						0.53
bodapp1				0.87					0.75
bodapp2				0.87					0.85
bodapp3				0.65		0.20			0.66
hea1					0.81				0.80
hea2					0.75				0.70
hea3					0.59				0.44
fit1						0.67			0.57
fit2						0.76			0.73
fit3						0.71			0.75
aes1							0.91		0.87
aes2							0.77		0.60
rischa1								0.66	0.60
rischa2								0.71	0.65
rischa3								0.86	0.82

SMC, squared multiple correlations; loadings < 0.20 are not presented. ^aIn accordance with the studies of the BMZI for middle adulthood (Lehnert et al., 2011; Schmid et al., 2018) and older adulthood (Schmid et al., 2014), an error covariance between con4 and con5 was permitted.