Development and validation of the sexual distress scale: results from a collectivistic culture

BMC Psychology

Table 2 Exploratory factor analysis (study 1; n = 263)

Item No.	Factor Loadings	Extraction / Communalities	Item-Scale Correlations	Inter item correlations
Item No.	Factor Loadings	Extraction / Communalities	Item-Scale Correlations	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
1	0.874	0.764	0.867**	0.778**	0.667**	0.668**	0.626**	0.697**	0.492**	0.530**
2	0.885	0.784	0.878**		0.697**	0.820**	0.490**	0.676**	0.583**	0.474**
3	0.808	0.653	0.802**			0.633**	0.621**	0.600**	0.354**	0.483**
4	0.838	0.702	0.834**				0.543**	0.565**	0.580**	0.436**
5	0.741	0.550	0.737**					0.620**	0.382**	0.408**
6	0.835	0.697	0.830**						0.494**	0.606**
7	0.652	0.426	0.670**							0.306**
8	0.660	0.436	0.679**

Notes: Items = 1: My sexual needs annoy me; 2: I get tensed by my sexual needs; 3: My sexual needs are problematic for me; 4: I stay worried about my sexual needs; 5: My sexual needs hinder in my routine life; 6: My sexual needs make me angry; 7: I usually get sexually frustrated; 8: My sexual desires irritate me
Extraction Method = Maximum likelihood; Rotation Method = Promax; Variance explained = 57.64; Factors extracted = 1
KMO = 0.861; BTS: χ² = 1415.169, df = 28, p < 0.001
**. Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level (2-tailed)

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