Table 4.
Exploratory Factor Analysis: Factor Loadings, Communalities, and Factor Correlations for the One- and Two-Factor Models of the 13-Item BSCS (Exploratory Half of Sample 1; n = 261).
| One-factor solution |
Two-factor solution |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Item | Factor 1 | Comm. | Factor 1 | Factor 2 | Comm. |
| 1 | .81 | .66 | .93 | .80 | |
| 2 | .83 | .69 | .62 | .69 | |
| 3 | .62 | .39 | .75 | .52 | |
| 4 | .53 | .29 | — | — | .29 |
| 5 | .76 | .58 | .64 | .60 | |
| 6 | .74 | .55 | .89 | .70 | |
| 7 | .76 | .59 | .43 | .40 | .58 |
| 8 | .75 | .57 | .80 | .65 | |
| 9 | .77 | .60 | .80 | .72 | |
| 10 | .62 | .39 | .81 | .57 | |
| 11 | .73 | .53 | .56 | .56 | |
| 12 | .78 | .60 | .53 | .60 | |
| 13 | .70 | .49 | .48 | .49 | |
| Factor | Factor correlations | ||||
| 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
| 2 | .68 | 1 | |||
Note. BSCS = Brief Self-Control Scale; Comm. = communalities. For two-factor solution, an oblique direct quartimin rotation was used, factor loadings less than an absolute value of .40 were omitted, and emdashes (—) indicate that an item failed to clearly load onto either of the factors.