Table 1.

Item loadings on corresponding factors as revealed by exploratory factor analysis of the Depression Anxiety Stress Scale 21 (DASS-21) in the quarantine sample.

Items		Extracted Factors
		Factor 1	Factor 2	Factor 3	Factor 4
1	I found it hard to wind down	0.242	0.178	0.206	0.616
2	I was aware of dryness of my mouth	0.573	0.182	0.149	0.136
3	I couldn’t seem to experience any positive feeling at all	0.265	0.278	0.365	0.284
4	I experienced breathing difficulty (e.g., excessively rapid breathing, breathlessness in the absence of physical exertion)	0.451	0.162	0.285	0.078
5	I found it difficult to work up the initiative to do things	0.246	0.206	0.474	0.022
6	I tended to over-react to situations	0.251	0.587	0.194	0.141
7	I experienced trembling (e.g., in the hands)	0.584	0.320	0.121	0.225
8	I felt that I was using a lot of nervous energy	0.257	0.659	0.270	0.439
9	I was worried about situations in which I might panic and make a fool of myself	0.345	0.695	0.160	0.179
10	I felt that I had nothing to look forward to	0.124	0.244	0.604	0.205
11	I found myself getting agitated	0.348	0.552	0.390	0.427
12	I found it difficult to relax	0.250	0.364	0.258	0.800
13	I felt down-hearted and blue	0.293	0.531	0.531	0.194
14	I was intolerant of anything that kept me from getting on with what I was doing	0.100	0.496	0.465	0.315
15	I felt I was close to panic	0.745	0.331	0.181	0.292
16	I was unable to become enthusiastic about anything	0.342	0.166	0.701	0.267
17	I felt I wasn’t worth much as a person	0.364	0.156	0.555	0.257
18	I felt that I was rather touchy	0.298	0.562	0.389	0.151
19	I was aware of the action of my heart in the absence of physical exertion (e.g., sense of heart rate increase, heart missing a beat)	0.624	0.092	0.312	0.092
20	I felt scared without any good reason	0.699	0.296	0.234	0.223
21	I felt that life was meaningless	0.548	0.257	0.461	0.160

Values in boldface represent significant loadings.