Table 2.
Oblimin-Rotated Loadings for the Five Emotion Regulation Goal Factors after Principal Components Analysis, Separately in Samples 1 and 2 (Study 1)
| Pro-hedonic | Contra-hedonic | Performance | Pro-social | Impression management | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Emotion regulation goal items | S1 | S2 | S1 | S2 | S1 | S2 | S1 | S2 | S1 | S2 |
| Pro-hedonic (3 items) | −.04 | .06 | .48* | .36* | .42* | .44* | .23* | .26* | ||
| To feel more positive emotion (e.g., joy, contentment) | .86 | .93 | .07 | .03 | .03 | .03 | .09 | .02 | −.08 | .00 |
| To feel less negative emotion (e.g., anger, sadness) | .79 | .20 | .02 | .13 | .04 | .48 | .14 | .07 | .00 | .16 |
| To keep feeling positive emotion (e.g., joy, contentment)? | .73 | .86 | .04 | .05 | .00 | .06 | .12 | .03 | .04 | .02 |
| Contra-hedonic (3 items) | .04 | −.05 | .05 | .20* | .05 | .27* | ||||
| To feel less positive emotion (e.g., joy, contentment)? | .00 | .04 | .87 | .83 | .01 | .07 | .00 | .00 | −.01 | .02 |
| To keep feeling negative emotion (e.g., anger, sadness)? | .00 | .03 | .84 | .84 | .10 | .01 | .01 | .01 | −.02 | .07 |
| To feel more negative emotion (e.g., anger, sadness)? | .02 | .05 | .82 | .89 | .14 | .05 | .00 | .05 | −.00 | .00 |
| Performance (3 items) | .30* | .42* | .22* | .27* | ||||||
| To concentrate on your work or what you’re doing? | .11 | .06 | .01 | .07 | .97 | .85 | .05 | .05 | .09 | .08 |
| To stay focused on a task you’re working on? | .00 | .02 | .14 | .06 | .90 | .90 | .02 | .07 | .01 | .08 |
| To avoid being distracted by how you’re feeling? | .20 | .08 | .10 | .17 | .70 | .84 | .12 | .03 | .08 | .00 |
| Pro-social (5 items) | .62* | .52* | ||||||||
| To make someone else feel good? | .02 | .07 | .05 | .01 | .08 | .03 | .87 | .93 | .02 | .06 |
| To cheer someone else up? | .02 | .06 | .04 | .04 | .05 | .07 | .86 | .96 | .08 | .10 |
| To avoid ruining someone else’s mood? | .04 | .12 | .01 | .03 | .01 | .09 | .80 | .84 | .02 | .03 |
| To avoid drifting apart from others? | .05 | .00 | .16 | .20 | .08 | .18 | .64 | .53 | .10 | .16 |
| To maintain a close relationship with others? | .19 | .00 | .04 | .17 | .00 | .00 | .49 | .53 | .23 | .44 |
| Impression management (4 items) | ||||||||||
| To avoid being rejected by others? | .01 | .00 | .02 | .13 | .02 | .02 | .13 | .10 | .92 | .83 |
| To have others approve of you? | .19 | .06 | .05 | .00 | .06 | .05 | .02 | .03 | .83 | .90 |
| To avoid making an unfavorable impression on others? | .09 | .15 | .08 | .01 | .09 | .13 | .08 | .04 | .77 | .86 |
| To make a positive impression on others? | .10 | .07 | .08 | .07 | .02 | .10 | .10 | .09 | .73 | .87 |
| Sum of squared loadings in oblimin analysis | 696.75 | 624.9 | 701.13 | 585.92 | 673.83 | 696.75 | 1038.55 | 602.06 | 1408.49 | 830.81 |
| Alpha reliability of scale based on this preliminary factor | .74 | .66 | .80 | .84 | .83 | .84 | .84 | .89 | .85 | .89 |
| Means and standard deviations | 4.95 (1.05) | 4.46 (1.09) | 2.29 (1.15) | 2.19 (1.28) | 4.86 (1.18) | 4.48 (1.19) | 4.98 (.96) | 4.22 (1.26) | 5.10 (1.03) | 3.75 (1.38) |
Note. S1 = Sample 1; S2 = Sample 2. Absolute loadings of .40 or greater are bolded. Items in each factor are listed in descending order based on S1 loading size. Correlations between subscales for each sample are in the right-hand corner of the table on the rows with bolded goal labels.
*
p < .05.