Research Article
The Effects of Sociodemographic Characteristics on Chinese Elders' Perception of the Image of Ageing
Table 2
Principal components EFA on IAS-C (self-image of ageing): varimax rotated factor structure and communalities for each item (
).
| Item = 14 () | | Communality | Component | |
1
|
2
|
3
|
4
|
5
|
| General physical health | | | | | | | | I walk slowly | | | | | | | | I am healthy | | | | | | | | I am full of life | | | | | | | |
| Social virtues | | | | | | | | I am family-oriented | | | | |
0.011
|
0.145
|
0.109
| I am tough | | |
0.284
| |
0.113
| | | I can rely on myself | | |
0.333
| |
0.358
|
0.063
| |
| Life attitudes | | | | | | | | I have positive outlook | | |
0.218
| | |
0.033
|
0.016
| I am well groomed | | | |
0.199
| |
0.090
|
0.044
| I have strong will to live | | |
0.112
|
0.300
| | |
0.305
|
| Psychosocial status | | | | | | | | I am lonely | | |
0.015
|
0.225
| | | | I am helpless | | |
0.000
|
0.031
|
0.085
| |
0.265
| I am sentimental | | |
0.258
| |
0.225
| |
0.032
|
| Cognition | | | | | | | | I am wise | | |
0.015
|
0.010
|
0.178
| | | I am senile | | |
0.291
| | | | |
| % Variance | |
60.179
|
22.326
|
12.575
|
9.535
|
8.327
|
7.416
|
|
|
Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin measure of sampling adequacy = 0.746; value of Bartlett's test of sphericity .001.
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