Factor Structure of the Ways of Coping Questionnaire in Parkinson’s Disease

Table 2

Rotated loadings for 6-factor exploratory factor analysis.


	Escape Avoidance	Confrontive	Planful Problem Solving	Seeking Social Support	Distancing	Faith

Criticised/lectured myself	0.630
Tried not to burn bridges	0.336
Hoped for miracle⁺	0.568
Went along with fate/luck	0.650
Slept more⁺	0.597
Tried to forget	0.534
Avoided others⁺	0.399
Refused to believe⁺	0.535
Wished situation would go away⁺	0.564
Fantasies⁺	0.457
Tried to change person’s mind⁺		0.707
Expressed anger⁺		0.843
Took it out on others		0.684
Concentrate on next step⁺			0.504			−0.353
Inspired to be creative			0.508
Made plan of action⁺			0.682
Changed something⁺			0.567
Drew on past experience⁺			0.572		0.304
Double efforts to work⁺			0.774
Couple of solutions⁺			0.778
Stop it interfering with other things			0.336
Talk to find out more⁺			0.353	0.524
Talked to someone who helped⁺			0.396	0.530
Look for silver lining				0.316
Accepted sympathy/understanding⁺				0.724
Asked advice⁺				0.754
Talked to someone⁺				0.716
Brought the problem on myself					0.392
Kept others from knowing					0.478
Made light of situation⁺					0.628
Didn’t let it get to me⁺					0.618	−0.317
Found new faith				0.327		0.753
改变了自己						0.378
祈祷				0.328		0.632

Note.Loadings ≤0.3 suppressed; bold indicates a loading twice that or greater than the loading on any other factor.⁺Item loads onto the same factor in the original 8-factor structure WCQ. P< . 05。