Changes in exposure to ‘life stressors’ in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population, 2002 to 2008

BMC Public Health

Table 2 Rotated factor analyses of NLES items for 2002 Indigenous population by remoteness

	Remote loadings			Non-remote loadings
NLES item	Social transgressions & labour market stressors	Grief and trauma	Labour market stressors	Social transgressions	Labour market stressors & relationship breakdown	Grief and trauma
Witness to violence	0.79	0.11	0.06	0.68	0.06	0.19
Abuse or violent crime	0.75	0.00	0.17	0.68	−0.01	0.13
Alcohol and/or drug problem	0.74	0.24	0.03	0.70	0.17	0.08
Police trouble	0.65	0.13	0.13	0.68	0.10	0.04
Gambling problem	0.65	0.25	0.12	0.52	0.27	−0.04
Not able to get a job	0.42	0.05	0.52	0.16	0.66	0.11
Lost job, made redundant, sacked	0.06	0.05	0.91	0.04	0.76	0.04
Divorce or separation	0.32	0.30	0.25	0.24	0.42	0.05
Serious illness or disability family	0.09	0.70	0.05	0.10	0.21	0.63
Serious accident someone close	0.17	0.71	0.01	0.19	−0.08	0.61
Death family member/close friend	0.19	0.59	0.16	0.06	0.08	0.65
Eigen value	2.95	1.58	1.25	2.28	1.36	1.28
Variation explained (%)	27%	14%	11%	21%	12%	12%
Cumulative variation (%)	27%	41%	53%	21%	33%	45%

Note: Item loadings in bold indicate the factor they most heavily loaded on (and above 0.3).

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