23 | If I am uncertain about the responsibilities of a job, I get very anxious. | 0.404 | 0.441 | |
27 | I enjoy carefully rehashing my conversations in my mind afterwards. | 0.181 | ||
29 | If I don’t get the punch line of a joke, I don’t feel right until I understand it. | 0.279 | 0.414 | |
Factor 2: Moral Absolutism / Splitting (MA) | α = 0.78 | α = 0.75 | ||
1 | There are two kinds of people in the world: the weak and the strong. | 0.735 | 0.961 | |
4 | A person either knows the answer to a question or he doesn’t. | 0.640 | 0.809 | |
7 | There are two kinds of people: the “good” and the “bad”. | 0.776 | 1.006 | |
10 | You can classify almost all people as either honest or crooked. | 0.698 | 0.999 | |
13 | Personally, I tend to think that there is a right way and a wrong way to do almost everything. | 0.529 | ||
16 | Nothing gets accomplished in this world unless you stick to some basic rules. | 0.223 | ||
19 | There’s a right way and a wrong way to do almost everything. | 0.387 | 0.533 | |
24 | A good job is one where what is to be done and how it is to be done are always clear. | 0.447 | ||
26 | A person is either a 100% patriotic or he isn’t. | 0.558 | 0.724 | |
30 | Our thinking would be a lot better off if we would just forget about words like “probably,” “approximately,” “perhaps”. | 0.383 | 0.539 | |
Factor 3: Need for Complexity and Novelty (NC) | α = 0.84 | α = 0.85 | ||
2 | I pursue problem situations which are so complex some people call them “mind boggling”. | 0.738 | 0.727 | |
5 | I often find myself looking for something new, rather than trying to hold things constant in my life. | 0.439 | ||
8 | I’m drawn to situations which can be interpreted in more than one way. | 0.527 | 0.475 | |
11 | I generally prefer novelty over familiarity. | 0.455 | ||
14 | Vague and impressionistic pictures appeal to me more than realistic pictures. | 0.405 | ||
17 | I tend to like obscure or hidden symbolism. | 0.603 | 0.541 | |
20 | Some problems are so complex that just trying to understand them is fun. | 0.802 | 0.781 | |
22 | Generally, the more meanings a poem or story has, the better I like it. | 0.332 | ||
25 | It is more fun to tackle a complicated problem than to solve a simple one. | 0.805 | 0.844 | |
28 | I enjoy tackling problems which are complex enough to be ambiguous. | 0.822 | 0.788 |