Table 1.
Exploratory structural equations modeling: factor loadings of the SAMD scale items.
| SAMD Scale | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Item | Item loading | Synchronicity awareness | Synchronicity meaning-detecting | |
| I felt that I was “in the right place, at the right time” | 0.721 | 0.192 | ||
| I ran into something or someone that I thought about in an unexpected place | 0.718 | 0.086 | ||
| I ran into a situation or a personal encounter that opened up new opportunities | 0.674 | 0.159 | ||
| I experienced an extraordinary synchronization of thought, behavior. Or words with another person | 0.672 | 0.258 | ||
| I received an answer to a certain need I had in an unpredictable way (e.g., a partner, a job offer, or an apartment) | 0.662 | 0.216 | ||
| I thought or dreamt about a person and then I met him\her somehow in the real world shortly afterwards | 0.651 | 0.171 | ||
| I thought about a person and he\she contacted me unexpectedly shortly afterwards | 0.640 | 0.241 | ||
| I thought about a particular idea and then I saw it as an external image (e.g., a quote, an ad, or a song) | 0.604 | 0.251 | ||
| While in nature, I felt a strong sense of connection to the world | 0.536 | 0.317 | ||
| I believe that unexplained events enable new discovery and development | 0.212 | 0.781 | ||
| I find signs of inner feelings in the external stimuli in the world around me | 0.244 | 0.763 | ||
| I find meaning in unexplained occurrences | 0.257 | 0.739 | ||
| I believe that listening to internal and external occurrences enables new discoveries | 0.342 | 0.734 | ||
| I sometimes feel that the environment “sends” me signals | 0.308 | 0.729 | ||
| Following experiences I’ve had, I have a sense of deep knowing of myself and the world | 0.259 | 0.724 | ||
| I am open to experiences that may not necessarily be explained by reason or causality | 0.206 | 0.722 | ||
| I tend to be attentive to intuition in my everyday life | 0.242 | 0.673 | ||
| I am curious about surprising events in my life | 0.178 | 0.658 | ||
| I walk around in the world with a sense of awe and wonder from the opportunities and surprises that the world has to offer | 0.258 | 0.651 | ||
| It happens that things related to issues I am concerned with suddenly appear more in my everyday life | 0.275 | 0.622 | ||
| I believe that there is something to be learned from any event in life | 0.050 | 0.621 | ||
| I tend to be attentive to physical and bodily sensations (e.g., goosebumps, pain, sense of warmth) | 0.118 | 0.588 | ||
Target factor loadings are in bold.