Table 1.

Multifactorial analysis of DACC 21

	Question	Communalities	Factor 1 (Stress)	Factor 2 (Anxiety)	Factor 3 (Depression)
Stress	I found it hard to wind down	0.347	0.433	0.033	0.147
	I felt that I was rather touchy	0.344	0.403	0.018	0.187
	I was intolerant of anything that kept me from getting on with what I was doing	0.406	0.602	0.002	0.039
	I tended to over-react to situations	0.522	0.581	0.132	0.259
	I found myself getting agitated	0.565	0.820	0.057	0.026
	I found it difficult to relax	0.594	0.658	0.234	0.048
	I felt that I was using a lot of nervous energy	0.546	0.424	0.003	0.394
Anxiety	I was aware of the action of my heart in the absence of physical exertion	0.654	0.127	0.737	0.161
	I experienced breathing difficulty (e.g., excessive rapid breathing)	0.654	0.164	0.619	0.249
	I felt scared without any good reason	0.614	0.622	0.317	0.060
	I was aware of dryness of my mouth	0.609	0.616	0.340	0.092
	I felt I was close to panic	0.460	0.384	0.310	0.089
	I was worried about situations in which I might panic and make a fool of myself	0.639	0.694	0.234	0.048
	I experienced trembling (e.g., in the hands)	0.462	0.658	0.074	0.055
Depression	I felt life was meaningless	0.334	0.097	0.074	0.617
	I felt I wasn’t worth much as a person	0.370	0.037	0.006	0.578
	I was unable to become enthusiastic about anything	0.542	0.196	0.146	0.527
	I felt that I had nothing to look forward to	0.118	0.077	0.068	0.265
	I couldn’t seem to experience any positive feeling at all	0.579	0.314	0.078	0.484
	I felt down-hearted and “blue” or sad	0.467	0.306	0.026	0.412
	I found it difficult to work up the initiative to do things	0.378	0.005	0.104	0.597
	Percentage of variance		42.3	4.76	2.25
	Eigenvalue		9.43	1.47	1.12

Bold values indicate the significant figures for the specific test used