Development and Validation of a Personality Assessment Instrument for Traditional Korean Medicine: Sasang Personality Questionnaire

Table 2

Extracted and rotated factor-loading matrix of SPQ subscales and questionnaire items.

	Questionnaire items	Factor loading
		1	2	3
SPQ-behavior (passive/active)	Q3: do you consider yourself passive or proactive?	0.761	−0.076	0.177
	Q6: is your personality relatively introverted or extroverted?	0.721	0.234	0.289
	Q7: do you consider yourself relatively lethargic or energetic?	0.693	0.179	0.246
	Q2: are you relatively slow or quick?	0.691	−0.059	0.013
	Q13: do you tend to not express your opinions or express well?	0.582	0.36	0.257
SPQ-emotionality (static/dynamic)	Q10: are you relatively patient or impatient?	−0.028	0.754	0.154
	Q14: do you tend to be logical or do you sometimes get excited?	0.082	0.722	0.049
	Q11: do you tend to experience little emotional change or big emotional change?	0.042	0.714	−0.269
	Q12: do you consider yourself as someone who expresses inner thoughts and feelings a little or a lot?	0.37	0.559	0.094
SPQ-cognition (meticulous/easygoing)	Q1: do you have a delicate or tough personality?	0.172	−0.007	0.813
	Q9: do you consider yourself feminine or masculine?	0.26	−0.004	0.721
	Q15: do you tend to act meticulously or hastily?	−0.122	0.488	0.579
	Q8: in general, do you make decisions with difficulty or with ease?	0.346	−0.141	0.524
	Q4: do you tend to be relatively indirect or direct when expressing yourself?	0.36	0.327	0.51