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Psychology: Research and Review

Table 3 Factor Loadings of SIQ items according to appearance order and percentage of variance explained by each factor

From: Psychometric properties of the Brazilian-adapted version of Sport Imagery Questionnaire

Item number (in order of appearance in the original scale)

Factor loading

Factor 1

Factor 2

Factor 3

Factor 4

Factor 5

Cognitive specific 1

  

.96

  

Cognitive specific 2

  

.96

  

Cognitive specific 3

  

.86

  

Cognitive specific 4

  

.93

  

Cognitive specific 5

  

.97

  

Cognitive specific 6

  

.88

  

Cognitive general 1

 

.97

   

Cognitive general 2

 

.61

   

Cognitive general 3

 

.96

   

Cognitive general 4

 

.97

   

Cognitive general 5

 

.99

   

Cognitive general 6

 

.99

   

Motivational specific 1

.82

    

Motivational specific 2

.99

    

Motivational specific 3

.98

    

Motivational specific 4

.84

    

Motivational specific 5

.76

    

Motivational specific 6

.86

    

Motivational general - arousal 1

   

.93

 

Motivational general - arousal 2

   

.97

 

Motivational general - arousal 3

   

.68

 

Motivational general - arousal 4

   

.75

 

Motivational general - arousal 5

   

.58

 

Motivational general - arousal 6

   

.54

 

Motivational general - mastery 1

    

.95

Motivational general - mastery 2

    

.55

Motivational general - mastery 3

    

.57

Motivational general - mastery 4

    

.67

Motivational general - mastery 5

    

.45

Motivational general - mastery 6

    

.98

Percentage of explained variance

44.79%

17.19%

14.97%

10.39%

5.50%

  1. Factor loadings above .40 were suppressed