No. | Question | Factor | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
 |  | 1 | 2 | 3 |
29 | Important people suddenly change towards me | 0.80 | -0.12 | -0.05 |
38 | When everything is confused, I feel that way inside | 0.73 | 0.00 | -0.06 |
28 | When others see me as having succeeded, I'm elated | 0.64 | -0.07 | 0.05 |
36 | After being involved with people, I find out what they are really like | 0.63 | 0.00 | 0.07 |
30 | It is hard for me to be sure about what others think of me | 0.62 | -0.28 | 0.24 |
35 | My goals keep changing | 0.54 | 0.38 | -0.30 |
34 | My life goals change frequently | 0.52 | 0.38 | -0.33 |
27 | I pick up interests and then drop them | 0.50 | 0.21 | -0.18 |
31 | Being alone is difficult | 0.48 | -0.06 | -0.22 |
20 | I behave differently in different situations | 0.47 | -0.22 | 0.41 |
32 | I see myself in different ways at different times | 0.46 | 0.17 | 0.10 |
25 | It's hard for me to say no | 0.46 | 0.04 | 0.03 |
21 | I fluctuate between being warm and cold | 0.43 | -0.14 | 0.42 |
14 | I do things that I later find hard to believe I did | 0.40 | 0.13 | 0.19 |
33 | In an intimate relationship, I'm afraid of losing a sense of myself | 0.40 | 0.36 | -0.10 |
40 | When I am confused, things in the outside world don't make sense either | 0.40 | 0.31 | 0.05 |
5 | I admire people in order to feel secure | 0.37 | -0.19 | 0.33 |
24 | I do things on impulse that are socially acceptable | 0.32 | 0.05 | 0.29 |
37 | People cannot guess how I'm going to behave | 0.32 | 0.14 | 0.22 |
6 | I do things that at other times I think are unwise | 0.32 | 0.09 | 0.07 |
26 | My life seems like a series of short stories | 0.32 | 0.22 | 0.02 |
19 | My tastes and opinions are borrowed from other people | 0.29 | 0.15 | 0.21 |
13 | I have favourite people whom I idealise | 0.21 | -0.02 | 0.12 |
55 | I can't tell whether I simply want something to be true | -0.04 | 0.85 | -0.04 |
42 | I see things that turn out to be something else | -0.01 | 0.73 | 0.00 |
51 | I understand things that nobody else is able to understand | -0.08 | 0.68 | 0.10 |
39 | I am not sure whether a voice I have heard is my imagination | 0.07 | 0.63 | -0.01 |
54 | I feel as if I have been somewhere before when I really haven't | -0.02 | 0.61 | -0.04 |
43 | When uncomfortable, I can't tell whether it is emotional or physical | 0.13 | 0.55 | 0.01 |
41 | I feel as if I'm someone else | 0.06 | 0.54 | 0.12 |
47 | I do things to upset other people | -0.08 | 0.53 | 0.14 |
52 | I cannot tell when certain things would appear crazy to others | -0.04 | 0.51 | 0.21 |
49 | My wishes/thoughts will come true as if by magic | -0.15 | 0.49 | 0.08 |
57 | I never know how to conduct myself with people | 0.13 | 0.46 | 0.19 |
4 | People turn against me or betray me | -0.12 | -0.05 | 0.69 |
11 | People use me | -0.03 | -0.07 | 0.64 |
15 | People either overwhelm me with love or abandon me | -0.17 | 0.27 | 0.61 |
10 | People are basically either good or bad | -0.32 | 0.15 | 0.58 |
17 | Others see me as quite different from the way I really am | 0.08 | 0.11 | 0.53 |
12 | I act in unpredictable and erratic ways | 0.13 | 0.01 | 0.52 |
22 | I provoke people to get my way | -0.11 | 0.31 | 0.51 |
8 | I don't get what I want | 0.13 | 0.02 | 0.46 |
16 | I feel things with either joy or despair | 0.17 | 0.15 | 0.44 |
18 | I'm different at home than at work/school | 0.33 | -0.01 | 0.40 |
3 | It has been a long time since anyone taught me anything I did not know | -0.14 | 0.26 | 0.39 |
9 | I behave in contradictory ways | 0.04 | 0.32 | 0.36 |
1 | I am a 'hero worshiper' | -0.02 | 0.04 | 0.34 |
2 | People I once thought highly of have disappointed me | 0.19 | 0.06 | 0.33 |
23 | I can't explain changes in my behaviour | 0.17 | 0.07 | 0.33 |
 | Percentage variance explained | 28.6% | 4.5% | 3.5% |