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 (𝑁=223).

Item = 14 (𝑁=227)		Communality	Component
			1	2	3	4	5
General physical health
I walk slowly		0.588	𝟎.𝟕𝟑𝟗	0.118	0.018	0.121	0.117
I am healthy		0.566	𝟎.𝟕𝟐𝟏	−0.070	0.140	0.011	0.147
I am full of life		0.639	𝟎.𝟔𝟗𝟗	0.352	0.151	0.037	0.041
Social virtues
I am family-oriented		0.653	−0.051	𝟎.𝟕𝟖𝟔	0.011	0.145	0.109
I am tough		0.595	0.284	𝟎.𝟔𝟖𝟖	0.113	−0.113	−0.123
I can rely on myself		0.492	0.333	𝟎.𝟒𝟖𝟏	0.358	0.063	−0.130
Life attitudes
I have positive outlook		0.636	0.218	−0.167	𝟎.𝟕𝟒𝟖	0.033	0.016
I am well groomed		0.579	−0.013	0.199	𝟎.𝟕𝟐𝟕	0.090	0.044
I have strong will to live		0.491	0.112	0.300	𝟎.𝟓𝟒𝟑	−0.030	0.305
Psychosocial status
I am lonely		0.646	0.015	0.225	−0.097	𝟎.𝟕𝟔𝟐	−0.067
I am helpless		0.610	0.000	0.031	0.085	𝟎.𝟕𝟐𝟗	0.265
I am sentimental		0.659	0.258	−0.314	0.225	𝟎.𝟔𝟔𝟓	0.032
Cognition
I am wise		0.713	0.015	0.010	0.178	0.050	𝟎.𝟖𝟐𝟒
I am senile		0.558	0.291	−0.059	−0.034	0.136	𝟎.𝟔𝟕𝟏
% Variance		60.179	22.326	12.575	9.535	8.327	7.416

Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin measure of sampling adequacy = 0.746;
𝑃 value of Bartlett's test of sphericity <.001.