Table 3.

Factor Loadings based on an Exploratory Factor Analysis Results with a Geomin rotation for the 19 negative symptom items on the Prodromal Questionnaire (PQ)

Item	Question	Factor 1 Social Dysfunction	Factor 2 Dissociative/Depressive
39	I have gotten very nervous when I had to make polite conversation.	0.930*
80	I have been extremely anxious when meeting people for the first time.	0.929*
87	I have avoided going to places where there were many people because I get anxious.	0.774*
33	I have had nothing to say or very little to say.	0.708*
21	I have been very quiet and have kept in the background on social occasions.	0.687*
43	I have avoided social activities with other people.	0.629*
59	I have tended to keep my feelings to myself.	0.595*
66	I have not been very good at returning social courtesies and gestures.	0.593*
78	I have had little interest in getting to know other people.	0.581*
58	People have found me to be aloof and distant.	0.469*	0.345*
42	I have found it hard to be emotionally close to other people.	0.421*	0.337*
48	I have felt unable to enjoy things that I used to enjoy.		0.932*
89	I have felt uninterested in the things I used to enjoy.		0.916*
81	I have felt like I was at a distance from myself, as if I were outside my own body or that a part of my body did not belong to me.		0.678*
82	I have found that when something sad happened, I was no longer able to feel sadness, or when something joyful happened, I could not feel happy.		0.669*
16	I have noticed a sense of not knowing who I am.		0.555*
71	I have felt like I was looking at myself as in a movie, or that I was a spectator in my own life.		0.529*
85	I have felt unable to carry out everyday tasks because of fatigue or lack of motivation.		0.493*
14	I have had difficulty expressing my feelings as well as I used to.		0.437*

Note: N=1,556 Factor loadings <.3 are suppressed. Probability

^*p<.05