Dimensions and items | Factor | Communalities | ||||
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |||
Psychological distress | ||||||
6. | Do you lose your temper if people keep on at you about sugar testing or diet? | 0 .523 | 0.250 | −0.033 | 0.115 | 00.31 |
8. | Are there more arguments or upsets at home than there would be if you did not have diabetes? | 0 .617 | 0.007 | 0.187 | −0.018 | 0.42 |
15. | Because of your diabetes, do you get depressed? | 0 .427 | 0.272 | 0.171 | 0.416 | 0.48 |
16. | Does your diabetes cause you to lose your temper or shout? | 0 .819 | 0.133 | 0.042 | 0.181 | 0.73 |
17. | Do you get touchy or moody about diabetes? | 0 .779 | 0.160 | 0.085 | 0.283 | 0.72 |
18. | Do you find yourself losing your temper over small things? | 0 .728 | 0.212 | 0.108 | 0.109 | 0.60 |
Barriers to activity | ||||||
1. | Does food control your life? | 0.060 | 0.177 | 0 .699 | 0.006 | 0.53 |
2. | Does having diabetes mean it is difficult staying out late? | 0.157 | −0.043 | 0 .536 | 0.180 | 0.34 |
3. | Does having diabetes mean your days are tied to meal times? | 0.024 | −0.070 | 0 .750 | 0.172 | 0.60 |
4. | Do you avoid going out if your sugar is on the low side? | 0.089 | −0.093 | 0.269 | 0.300 | 0.19 |
11. | Because of your diabetes, do you worry about getting colds orinfluenza? | 0.088 | −0.063 | 0.365 | 0 .432 | 0.31 |
13. | Do you find it frightening or worrying going into busy or crowded shops? | 0.110 | 0.227 | 0.015 | 0 .551 | 0.37 |
14. | Do you get edgy when out and there is nowhere to eat? | 0.201 | 0.139 | 0.210 | 0 .423 | 0.28 |
Disinhibited eating | ||||||
5. | Do you have problems keeping to your diet because you eat to cheer yourself up? | 0.135 | 0 .741 | 0.011 | 0.141 | 0.61 |
7. | Do you have problems keeping to your diet because you find it hard to say no to food you like? | 0.116 | 0 .714 | −0.002 | 0.028 | 0.54 |
9. | When you start eating, how easy do you find it to stop? | −0.115 | −0.611 | 0.056 | −0.008 | 0.40 |
10. | How likely are you to eat something extra when you feel bored or fed up? | 0.156 | 0 .704 | −0.059 | −0.056 | 0.53 |
12. | Do you wish there were not so many nice things to eat? | 0.108 | 0 .547 | 0.107 | 0.099 | 0.36 |
Values higher than 0.4 in boldface.