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

BMC Public Health

Table 3 Rotated factor analyses of NLES items for 2008 Indigenous population by remoteness

	Remote loadings			Non-remote loadings
NLES item	Social transgressions	Grief, trauma & relationship breakdown	Labour market stressors	Social transgressions	Grief, trauma & relationship breakdown	Labour market stressors
Witness to violence	0.68	0.11	0.05	0.72	0.14	0.05
Abuse or violent crime	0.70	0.11	−0.08	0.75	0.11	−0.04
Alcohol and/or drug problem	0.73	0.17	0.19	0.66	0.06	0.32
Police trouble	0.64	0.12	0.13	0.68	0.01	0.20
Gambling problem	0.65	−0.02	0.27	0.56	0.00	0.35
Not able to get a job	0.25	0.06	0.66	0.24	0.06	0.66
Lost job, made redundant, sacked	0.05	0.05	0.81	0.11	0.11	0.67
Divorce or separation	0.14	0.37	0.05	0.30	0.46	−0.27
Serious illness or disability family	0.08	0.59	0.27	−0.02	0.61	0.29
Serious accident someone close	0.12	0.61	0.03	0.07	0.56	0.20
Death family member/close friend	0.17	0.68	−0.02	0.15	0.65	−0.03
Eigen value	2.44	1.39	1.31	2.47	1.38	1.36
Variation explained (%)	22%	13%	12%	22%	13%	12%
Cumulative variation (%)	22%	35%	47%	22%	35%	47%

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

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