Item No.

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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