Table 2.
Item Factor Loadings for Final Three-Factor Model
| Item | Factor | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | ||
| 7. | I worry that when I let my body relax, I will look unattractive. | 1.06* | −0.16 | 0.02 |
| 3. | I fear that if my body is relaxed, I won’t be socially appealing. | 0.98 | −0.02 | −0.11 |
| 8. | I worry that when I let my body relax, I will look silly. | 0.75 | 0.07 | 0.18 |
| 17. | I worry that when I let my body relax, people will make fun of me. | 0.75 | 0.20 | −0.01 |
| 1. | It scares me when I feel tension release in my muscles. | −0.06 | 0.77 | −0.11 |
| 11. | It scares me when my breathing becomes deeper. | −0.12 | 0.72 | .00 |
| 15. | It scares me when my limbs feel heavy. | −0.01 | 0.70 | 0.01 |
| 9. | I don’t like activities like meditation because of the way they make my body feel. | −0.03 | 0.63 | 0.08 |
| 19. | It frightens me to focus on my breathing. | 0.04 | 0.58 | 0.09 |
| 6. | When my body feels as if it has been slowed down, I worry that there might be something terribly wrong with me. | 0.07 | 0.57 | 0.14 |
| 14. | It scares me when I am relaxing and I feel like I’m floating. | 0.02 | 0.57 | 0.24 |
| 16. | It frightens me when I’m relaxing and noises seem louder, muffled, or further away than they previously were. | .00 | 0.56 | 0.19 |
| 13. | I hate getting massages because of the feeling it creates when my muscles relax. | 0.01 | 0.52 | 0.30 |
| 18. | While I’m relaxing and images become fuzzy, I worry that something is wrong with me. | 0.27 | 0.52 | .00 |
| 12. | I don’t like to relax because it makes me feel out of control. | −0.06 | 0.04 | 0.99 |
| 21. | I don’t like to relax because I don’t like when my thoughts slow down. | −0.24 | −0.03 | 0.96 |
| 20. | I’m scared of doing relaxing activities because they make me feel vulnerable. | 0.18 | 0.04 | 0.70 |
| 4. | I don’t like to relax because it makes me feel out of contact with others. | 0.19 | −0.01 | 0.67 |
| 5. | It scares me when I am relaxing and begin to feel like I am losing a sense of time. | 0.03 | 0.15 | 0.56 |
| 2. | When I try to relax my body, I feel like I’m losing control. | 0.13 | 0.21 | 0.54 |
| 10. | Focusing on the present moment rather than the future or the past makes me feel anxious. | −0.02 | 0.23 | 0.52 |
Note. Final items were organized by factor and renumbered to account for deleted items. 1 = Social Concerns; 2 = Physical Concerns; 3 = Cognitive Concerns.
*
The factor loading above 1.0 for item 7 was not associated with a negative residual variance.