Item No. | Items | Factor Load | ||
Factor 1: Discomfort with Ambiguity (DA) (α = 0.73) | ||||
3 | It intensely disturbs me when I am uncertain of how my actions will affect others. | 0.651 | ||
6 | I don’t feel comfortable with people until I can find out something about them. | 0.513 | ||
9 | I am just a little uncomfortable with people unless I feel that I can understand their behavior. | 0.523 | ||
12 | I get pretty anxious when I’m in a social situation involving me which I have little control of. | 0.596 | ||
15 | It bothers me when I don’t know how other people react to me. | 0.633 | ||
23 | If I am uncertain about the responsibilities of a job, I get very anxious. | 0.441 | ||
29 | If I don’t get the punch line of a joke, I don’t feel right until I understand it. | 0.414 | ||
Factor 2: Moral Absolutism/Splitting (MA) (α = 0.75) | ||||
1 | There are two kinds of people in the world: the weak and the strong. | 0.955 | ||
4 | A person either knows the answer to a question or he doesn’t. | 0.802 | ||
7 | There are two kinds of people: the “good” and the “bad”. | 0.996 | ||
10 | You can classify almost all people as either honest or crooked. | 0.992 | ||
19 | There’s a right way and a wrong way to do almost everything. | 0.527 | ||
26 | A person is either a 100% patriotic or he isn’t. | 0.722 | ||
30 | Our thinking would be a lot better off if we would just forget about words like “probably,” “approximately,” “perhaps”. | 0.537 | ||
Factor 3: Need for Complexity and Novelty (NC) (α = 0.84) | ||||
2 | I pursue problem situations which are so complex some people call them “mind boggling”. | 0.725 | ||
8 | I’m drawn to situations which can be interpreted in more than one way. | 0.481 | ||
14 | Vague and impressionistic pictures appeal to me more than realistic pictures. | 0.360 | ||
17 | I tend to like obscure or hidden symbolism. | 0.550 | ||
20 | Some problems are so complex that just trying to understand them is fun. | 0.783 | ||
25 | It is more fun to tackle a complicated problem than to solve a simple one. | 0.840 | ||
28 | I enjoy tackling problems which are complex enough to be ambiguous. | 0.789 | ||
Factor Correlations: | DA | MA | ||
MA | 0.26** | |||
NC | −0.01 | 0.00 |