Table 1.
Pattern matrix of principal component analysis (PCA) with oblique rotation for coping dimensions.
| No. | Item | Problem- solving |
Distraction & Denial |
Blaming |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Factor loadings | Communalities | |||||
| Engagement coping | 1. | … I made clear to myself what is at stake and what I should do. | 0.825 | 0.769 | ||
| 2. | … I got my emotions under control by perceiving the emotions without letting them overwhelm me. | 0.867 | 0.642 | |||
| Disengagement coping | 3. | … I tried to withdraw from the situation. | 0.845 | 0.734 | ||
| 4. | … I faded out, stopped paying attention or looked for distractions. | 0.815 | 0.760 | |||
| 5. | … I behaved passively or waited for something to happen. | 0.721 | 0.534 | |||
| 6. | … I suppressed my emotions. | 0.547 | 0.413 | 0.329 | ||
| 7. | … I blamed or reproached others for the situation, took my frustration out on them. | 0.894 | 0.663 | |||
| 8. | … I blamed or reproached myself for the situation. | 0.811 | 0.765 | |||
| 9. | … I got my emotions under control by drinking alcohol or smoking. | 0.443 | 0.702 | |||
Note. Item 6 and 9 were excluded from further analyses due to low factor loadings and the cross-loading of item 6.