| Item no | Content of items | F1 | F 2 | F 3 | Communality |
| 1 | I feel that it is difficult to predict the future of patients. | .706 | .004 | -.077 | .489 |
| 2 | I feel that I sometimes have trouble making decisions when providing psychiatric nursing care. | .523 | -.006 | .107 | .301 |
| 3 | I feel that it is difficult to determine the symptoms and recovery process of patients. | .521 | .012 | -.080 | .269 |
| 4 | I feel that symptoms from which patients recover tend to recur. | .428 | -.004 | .143 | .221 |
| 5 | I feel that I am bothered by the smell of the ward. | -.075 | .651 | .101 | .428 |
| 6 | I feel that my ward is clean. | .039 | .624 | -.167 | .404 |
| 7 | I think my ward is cramped. | .049 | .621 | .053 | .415 |
| 8 | I feel that I worry about the possibility of suicide and self-inflicted injury in patients. | .017 | -.045 | .720 | .517 |
| 9 | I feel that there are psychological burdens concerning the possibility of a medical accident. | -.009 | .152 | .553 | .346 |
| 10 | I feel that I worry about patients’ behaviors (impulsive actions, leaving the hospital without authorization). | .023 | -.083 | .534 | .285 |
| Explained variance(%) | 16.902 | 10.776 | 9.075 | ||
| Correlation of factors | 1 | ||||
| .255 | 1 | ||||
| .151 | .117 | 1 |