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. 2020 Jul 22;167:110263. doi: 10.1016/j.paid.2020.110263

Table 1.

Explorative factor analysis of reasons to shop extra.

Question Factor 1
Panic
Factor 2
Action
I wanted to be sure that I and my family have enough food, medicine, etc. 0.690 0.118
I knew that other people were doing it. 0.544 0.199
I wanted to share the experience with my family and friends. 0.128 0.669
It felt good to be able to do something active in a crisis situation. 0.141 0.756
I'm the sort of person who always has enough of everything. 0.202 0.587
My family or I have always done this sort of thing in situations like this. 0.250 0.640
I did not want to risk being the only one who ran out of food, medicine, etc. 0.733 0.210
I did not feel confident that the authorities and the stores could provide enough goods. 0.812 0.002
I was afraid that suddenly there would not be enough food, medicine etc. 0.871 0.012
It is kind of fun to go shopping when things feel a little dramatic. 0.221 0.645

Note: Principal Component Analysis, Varimax Rotation with Kaiser Normalization. Rotation Sums of Squared Loadings Factor 1: 2.915, 29.2% of variance. Factor 2: 2.286, 22.9% of variance; Cronbach's Alpha Factor 1: 0.800. Factor 2: 0.702. Bold indicate high loading.