Table 4.

Result of explanatory factor analysis of the 9 items of GDST-9^a)

Item No.	Factor 1 loadings	Factor 2 loadings	Communalities
1	0.105	0.544	0.39
2	−0.157	0.739	0.43
3	0.793	−0.053	0.58
4	0.699	−0.102	0.44
5	0.172	0.485	0.42
6	0.759	−0.049	0.53
7	0.73	0.159	0.73
8	0.665	0.042	0.52
9	0.678	0.116	0.59
Proportion variance	0.44	0.06

a) The inter-factorial correlation between factor 1 and 2 was 0.68.