Active Ageing: An Empirical Approach to the WHO Model

Table 3

Factor structure of P3A—exploratory factor analysis.

Questions	Factors
	1	2	3	4	5	6
Subjective health	0.652	−0.298	−0.312	−0.071	−0.131	−0.104
Sleep problems	0.620	−0.154	0.152	0.133	−0.114	0.260
Subjective physical condition	0.670	−0.218	−0.250	−0.061	−0.104	−0.223
ADL	−0.563	0.052	0.262	0.160	−0.103	0.139
Illness	0.673	−0.067	0.004	−0.241	0.009	0.035
Psychological distress	0.437	−0.586	−0.101	−0.084	−0.112	−0.005
Happiness	−0.265	0.540	0.105	−0.085	0.260	0.213
Optimism	−0.050	0.683	−0.035	0.039	0.065	0.068
Neuroticism	0.096	−0.695	−0.114	−0.163	0.171	0.108
Quality of life—environment	−0.076	0.616	0.286	0.075	0.051	0.132
Loneliness	−0.149	0.492	−0.011	0.126	0.351	−0.084
Cognitive impairment	−0.096	0.180	0.594	0.396	0.103	−0.146
Vision	−0.100	−0.001	0.592	−0.211	0.056	0.242
Income	−0.162	0.135	0.699	0.261	0.126	−0.198
Education level	−0.098	0.133	0.807	0.204	0.034	−0.199
Peak flow	−0.044	0.157	0.295	0.700	0.056	−0.051
Grip strength	−0.266	0.098	0.042	0.782	0.060	0.058
Social relations—family	−0.028	0.109	−0.006	0.112	0.727	−0.063
Social relations—friends	−0.131	0.074	0.130	0.078	0.400	0.269
Social relations—confidence	0.024	0.013	0.104	−0.065	0.700	0.011
Extraversion	−0.196	0.106	−0.027	−0.199	0.055	0.655
Openness to experience	0.123	0.014	−0.190	0.143	−0.016	0.734
% of variance explained	11.6	11.2	10.6	7.7	6.9	6.6