Socioeconomic and risk-related drivers of compliance with measures to prevent SARS-CoV-2 infection: evidence from the Munich-based KoCo19 study

Table 4 Results of the factor analyses

	Unrotated factor loadings		Rotated factor loadings
	Factor 1	Factor 2	Factor 1	Factor 2	Alpha	Alpha new
Factor 1: personal hygiene					0.597
Washing hands	0.648	-0.447	0.800	-0.045		0.408
Avoiding touching face	0.650	-0.423	0.782	-0.022		0.431
Wearing a mask	0.581	-0.260	0.604	0.086		0.598
Factor 2: social distancing					0.540
Keeping 1.5 m distance	0.640	0.144	0.322	0.480		0.524
Avoiding social gatherings	0.514	0.614	-0.140	0.833		0.503
Avoiding crowded public spaces	0.663	0.464	0.082	0.780		0.272
Eigenvalue	2.294	1.236	1.957	1.773
% Shared variance accounted for	0.38	0.18	0.33	0.30
Correlation between factors			0.310
Observations	2,834

In bold, factor loadings whose absolute value is higher than 0.4; alpha: Cronbach’s alpha; alpha new: new Cronbach´s alpha value if the item is deleted

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