The functions of nonsuicidal self-injury: converging evidence for a two-factor structure

Table 2 Factor loadings of 22 Functional Assessment of Self-Mutilation (FASM) items

FASM item	FASM Scale^a	Original factor^a	Social (Factor 1)	Intrapersonal (Factor 2)
1	Social Negative	Social	.67	.12
2	Automatic Negative	Intrapersonal	−.04	.67
3	Social Positive	Social	.87	−.07
4	Automatic Positive	Intrapersonal	−.02	.76
5	Social Negative	Social	.65	.24
6	Social Positive	Social	.09	.58
7	Social Positive	Social	.89	−.04
8	Social Positive	Social	.97	−.17
9	Social Negative	Social	.38	.51
10	Automatic Negative	Intrapersonal	−.06	.62
11	Social Positive	Social	.61	.04
12	Social Positive	Social	.78	.12
13	Social Negative	Social	.54	.22
14	Automatic Negative	Intrapersonal	−.32	.80
15	Social Positive	Social	.59	.20
16	Social Positive	Social	.92	−.10
17	Social Positive	Social	.82	.01
18	Social Positive	Social	.26	.42
19	None	Social^b	.80	−.26
20	Social Positive	Social	.63	.12
21	Social Positive	Social	.76	.01
22	Automatic Positive	Intrapersonal	−.09	.71

^aBased on Nock and Prinstein [26]
^bAlthough Nock and Prinstein [26] did not include this item in their factor analysis, we regarded the item-content (“to give yourself something to do with others”) as reflecting a social function

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