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Table 3 Final version of the Russian DS14 (DS14-RU): principal components matrix

From: Type D personality in Russian patients with cardiovascular disease: validity of the Russian DS14 (DS14-RU)

Items

Factor 1

Factor 2

Communality (h2)

Negative affectivity

2

I often make a fuss about unimportant things

.71

−.08

.51

4

I often feel unhappy

.70

.20

.53

5

I am often irritated

.69

.06

.47

7

I take a gloomy view of things

.54

.38

.44

9

I am often in a bad mood

.57

.40

.49

12

I often find myself worrying about something

.61

.04

.37

13

I am often down in the dumps

.71

.34

.61

 Eigenvalue = 4.9

Social inhibition

1

I make contact easily when I meet people

.05

−.70

.50

3

When I meet a lot of people, I get nervous

.36

.54

.42

6

I often feel inhibited in social interactions

.30

.64

.50

8

I find it hard to start a conversation

.15

.75

.58

10

I am a closed kind of person

.17

.65

.45

11

I would rather keep other people at a distance

.08

.59

.36

14

When socializing, I don’t find the right things to talk about

0.08

.74

.55

 Eigenvalue = 1.9