Table 2.

Item loadings in the personality questionnaire.

Item	Insecurity	Training Focus	Energy	Aggressiveness/Dominance	Human Sociability	Dog Sociability	Perseverance
Erratic	0.33	−0.45	0.09	0.12	−0.09	−0.06	0.15
Aggressive to people	0.34	−0.02	0.02	0.43	−0.23	0.06	0.23
Sensitive to touch	0.36	−0.01	0.11	0.01	−0.44	−0.06	0.14
Human dependent	0.37	−0.05	−0.05	−0.07	0.28	−0.07	−0.15
Fearful of dogs	0.56	0	0.04	0.23	0.12	−0.24	−0.03
Cautious	0.71	0.18	−0.23	−0.15	0.05	0.02	0.01
Insecure	0.89	0.02	−0.02	−0.04	0.04	0.02	0.01
Anxious	0.88	−0.04	0	0.01	−0.02	−0.02	0.04
Fearful of people	0.8	0.1	0.01	0.08	−0.22	0.05	0.12
Wary	0.71	−0.05	−0.02	0.12	−0.01	0.01	0.13
Flexible	−0.41	0.37	−0.11	−0.1	0.11	0.04	0.07
Easily recovered	−0.45	0.31	−0.07	−0.02	0.06	0.09	0.09
Easygoing	−0.66	0.18	−0.1	−0.06	0.07	0.07	0.08
Bold	−0.83	0.06	0.04	0.05	−0.01	0	0.17
Confident	−0.83	0.03	−0.03	0.07	−0.02	0.04	0.19
Curious	−0.38	0.04	0.24	0	0.16	0.29	0.21
Independent	−0.38	0.2	−0.14	−0.1	−0.15	−0.1	0.28
Obedient	0.06	0.67	0.31	−0.02	0.11	−0.06	−0.16
Willing to learn	0.01	0.46	0.51	0	0.09	−0.04	0.05
Patient	−0.04	0.57	−0.33	−0.02	−0.01	0.11	−0.04
Calm	−0.13	0.4	−0.51	−0.24	−0.01	−0.02	0.06
Empathic	0.09	0.3	−0.08	0.03	0.43	0.05	0.09
Predictable	−0.07	0.46	−0.21	−0.04	0.09	0.02	−0.03
Reliable	−0.23	0.48	−0.07	−0.24	0.1	−0.1	0.01
Attentive	0.17	0.49	0.27	0.05	0.24	0.01	0.13
Focused	−0.11	0.71	0.02	−0.01	−0.06	−0.15	0.16
Intelligent	0.11	0.46	0.19	0.03	0.05	0.02	0.24
Restless	0.12	−0.47	0.5	−0.1	−0.02	−0.1	0.11
Excitable	0.17	−0.41	0.52	0.08	0.08	0.01	0.11
Provocative	0.01	−0.32	0.12	0.33	0	0.14	0.35
Stubborn	−0.1	−0.48	−0.09	0.04	−0.03	−0.01	0.57
Distractible	0.14	−0.69	0.04	−0.01	0.1	0.1	−0.05
Impulsive	0.13	−0.52	0.29	0.15	−0.03	0.02	0.15
Playful with people	−0.15	0.06	0.33	−0.01	0.37	0.19	0.05
Energetic	−0.06	0.08	0.83	−0.05	0.05	0.05	0.1
Boisterous	−0.04	−0.17	0.42	0.13	0.18	0.2	0.13
Active	−0.02	−0.07	0.71	−0.09	0.04	0.05	0.13
Playful alone	0.06	0.07	0.32	−0.03	0.15	0.27	0.15
Slow	0.04	0.08	−0.72	−0.03	0.06	0.01	0.08
Lazy	0.08	−0.22	−0.77	0.02	0.06	−0.14	0.14
Aggressive to dogs (same gender)	0.03	0.04	−0.05	0.94	0.03	0	−0.04
Aggressive to dogs (opposite gender)	0.1	0	−0.03	0.78	0.06	−0.12	−0.02
Dominant	−0.06	−0.02	−0.02	0.8	0.02	−0.01	0.11
Territorial	0.24	0.13	−0.01	0.4	−0.1	0.04	0.24
Sociable with dogs (same gender)	0.04	−0.02	−0.02	−0.58	0.07	0.43	0.12
Submissive	0.27	−0.04	0	−0.72	0.1	−0.02	−0.01
Calming	0.06	0.25	−0.16	−0.33	0.06	0.13	0.12
Human oriented	0.03	0.04	−0.04	0.1	0.5	−0.63	0.04
Sociable with people	−0.14	−0.04	0.01	−0.03	0.84	0.04	−0.03
Affectionate with people	0.11	0.01	−0.03	0	0.73	0.03	0.07
Attention seeking	0.17	−0.24	0.13	−0.03	0.34	−0.02	0.24
Solitary	0.1	−0.01	−0.23	0.01	−0.39	−0.33	0.11
Playful with dogs	−0.03	0.04	0.12	−0.15	0.07	0.69	0.04
Affectionate with dogs	0.07	0.02	−0.04	−0.1	0.23	0.46	0.06
Sociable with dogs (opposite gender)	−0.08	0.01	−0.06	−0.19	0.06	0.65	0.08
Indifferent	−0.03	0.16	−0.06	−0.11	−0.09	−0.72	0.15
Decisive	−0.19	0.25	−0.02	0.06	0.05	0.01	0.58
Persevering	−0.12	0.07	0.17	0.01	0.04	−0.05	0.61

Loadings >0.30 and <−0.30 are in bold.