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Table 2 Confirmatory factor analysis of the Swedish version of the Social Safeness and Pleasure Scale (SSPS)

From: The Social Safeness and Pleasure Scale (SSPS): a psychometric evaluation of the Swedish version in a non-clinical sample and two clinical samples with eating disorders or borderline personality disorder

Item no

Factor loading (Swe)

Factor loading (Eng, from Gilbert et al. 2009)

Item wording

1

0.74

0.51

I feel content within my relationships

2

0.78

0.63

I feel easily soothed by those around me

3

0.81

0.69

I feel connected to others

4

0.47

0.53

I feel part of something greater than myself

5

0.76

0.77

I have a sense of being cared about in the world

6

0.87

0.83

I feel secure and wanted

7

0.88

0.84

I feel a sense of belonging

8

0.77

0.80

I feel accepted by people

9

0.77

0.76

I feel understood by people

10

0.82

0.77

I feel a sense of warmth in my relationships with people

11

0.72

0.65

I find it easy to be calmed by people close to me

  1. Analyses were performed in the non-clinical sample (n = 407). The factor loadings from the English original are provided for comparison purposes