Table 4.
Full Sample Principal Components Analysis: Pattern Matrix Loadings
| Full Sample Loadings |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Measure outcome | Component 1: “Health and Ethics” 25.79% of variance | Component 2: “Probability Discounting” 15.28% of variance | Component 3: “Financial Risk” 9.48% of variance | Component 4: “Social Risk” 7.25% of variance | Component 5: “Social/BART” 6.60% of variance |
| DOSPERT Ethical Risk Taking | −.845 | −.044 | .091 | −.122 | .095 |
| DOSPERT Health/Safety Risk Taking | −.725 | −.018 | −.075 | .427 | .173 |
| DOSPERT Ethical Risk Perception | .586 | .024 | −.065 | .15 | .527 |
| DOSPERT Health/Safety Risk Perception | .587 | −.01 | −.016 | −.185 | .364 |
| PCQ Block 1 LogH | .029 | .849 | .006 | .037 | .065 |
| PCQ Block 2 LogH | −.034 | .92 | .013 | 0 | .03 |
| PCQ Block 3 LogH | −.046 | .798 | .059 | −.034 | −.033 |
| PDT LogH | .042 | .753 | −.062 | .006 | −.063 |
| DOSPERT Financial Risk Taking | −.076 | −.01 | .829 | .088 | .096 |
| DOSPERT Financial Risk Perception | .05 | .039 | − .694 | .137 | .479 |
| SCFIRQ | −.027 | .03 | − .667 | −.1 | −.165 |
| DOSPERT Recreational Risk Taking | −.021 | −.048 | .225 | .83 | .174 |
| DOSPERT Social Risk Taking | −.043 | −.011 | −.112 | .526 | −.253 |
| DOSPERT Recreational Risk Perception | .068 | .04 | −.179 | − .552 | .374 |
| DOSPERT Social Risk Perception | −.111 | −.002 | .004 | −.241 | .752 |
| BART: Mean Adjusted Pumps (for unpopped balloons) | −.058 | −.008 | −.08 | −.006 | −.4 |
Note. SCF IRQ = survey of consumer finances investment risk question; DOSPERT = Domain-Specific Risk-Taking Scale; PDT = The Probability Discounting Task; PCQ = Probabilistic Choice Questionnaire; BART = Balloon Analogue Risk Task. All values over .3 are in bold.