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Table 5 Revised exploratory factor analysis of the additional Inventory of Personality Organisation (IPO) items (N = 353)

From: The Inventory of Personality Organisation: its psychometric properties among student and clinical populations in Japan

No.

Question

Factor

  

1

2

59

When we disagreed about how to solve a problem, I couldn't stand it

0.90

-0.22

62

I have seriously harmed someone in self-defence

0.87

-0.17

60

I have intentionally harmed someone

0.73

0.02

61

To maintain control, you have to make people afraid of you

0.68

0.09

75

I lose my patience and later regret it

0.54

0.21

70

When people don't understand/mess things up I become hostile

0.49

0.33

80

Everybody is out to get things for themselves

-0.16

0.82

79

People pretend to feel guilty when afraid of being caught

-0.18

0.81

81

One cannot judge others' real feelings from their surface behaviour

0.12

0.62

82

Everybody pretends to be concerned about others and moral values

0.24

0.58

76

Everybody would steal if not afraid

0.11

0.55

83

I'm free of guilty feelings

-0.07

0.52

78

There are periods of time when I've acted in an immoral or amoral way

0.33

0.47

 

Percentage variance explained

40.4%

9.9%