Table 4 Pattern Matrices of Three and Four-Factor Principal Axis Factor Analyses with Oblimin Rotation and Factor Reliabilities

9. I can say that I have found my purpose in life.

.77

.75

2. I believe I have discovered who I really am.

.72

.68

21. I believe I know what I was meant to do in life.

.71

.71

6. I believe I know what my best potentials are and I try to develop them whenever possible.

.50

.25

.54

.28

11. As yet, I’ve not figured out what to do with my life. (R)

-.47

.26

-.46

.26

1. I find I get intensely involved in many of the things I do each day.

.31

.22

.31

18. It is important to me that I feel fulfilled by the activities that I engage in.

.67

.67

13. I believe it is important to know how what I’m doing fits with purposes worth pursuing.

.63

.27

-.56

8. I feel best when I’m doing something worth investing a great deal of effort in.

.57

.35

-.34

15. When I engage in activities that involve my best potentials, I have this sense of really being alive.

.48

.22

.57

-.22

14. I usually know what I should do because some actions just feel right to me.

.39

.25

-.23

17. I find a lot of the things I do are personally expressive for me.

.39

.32

4. My life is centered around a set of core beliefs that give meaning to my life.

.33

.36

-.82

5. It is more important that I really enjoy what I do than that other people are impressed by it.

.36

-.36

10. If I did not find what I was doing rewarding for me, I do not think I could continue doing it.

.30

.34

19. If something is really difficult, it probably isn’t worth doing. (R)

.67

.66

20. I find it hard to get really invested in the things that I do. (R)

.55

.54

7. Other people usually know better what would be good for me to do than I know myself. (R)

.47

.47

12. I can’t understand why some people want to work so hard on the things that they do. (R)

.39

.39

3. I think it would be ideal if things came easily to me in my life. (R)

.38

.38

16. I am confused about what my talents really are. (R)

-.31

.35

-.34

.34

Cronbach’s alpha coefficient

.77

.73

.61

.77

.51

.71

.61

Average interitem correlation

.33

.26

.24

.33

.25

.33

.24