Dimensions of Attitudes towards the Mentally Ill in the General Population Stability and Change over Time at Urban and Rural Sites

Table 2

Factor loadings from separate analyses of Lofoten samples in 1983, 1990, and 2000 and Oslo samples in 1990 and 2000. First unrotated factor from maximum likelihood extraction on transformed scores.

(a) Lofoten

Variable	1983	1990	2000
A1 Cook Before Leave	0.640	0.593	0.682
A2 Disturbed Hospitalized (T)	0.709	0.663	0.723
A3 Facilities Not In Dwelling (T)	0.632	0.600	0.628
A4 Find Their Way	0.709	0.767	0.755
A5 Difficult Understand	0.541	0.510	0.523
A6 Responsibility Care (T)	−0.024	−0.016	−0.091
A7 Keep Order Economy	0.734	0.758	0.738
A8 More Tax Money (T)	0.162	0.158	−0.077
A9 Accept Facilities (T)	−0.018	−0.157	−0.317
A10 Think About Appearance	0.651	0.592	0.516
A11 Keep Away	0.549	0.523	0.460
A12 Like Most People	0.761	0.730	0.747
A13 More Tolerant (T)	−0.063	−0.145	−0.306
A14 Too Much Money	0.500	0.407	0.328
A15 Not Responsibility (T)	0.631	0.575	0.520
A16 Foolish To Marry (T)	0.649	0.586	0.505
A17 Not Next Door (T)	0.633	0.570	0.591
A18 Resist Location (T)	0.585	0.517	0.607
A19 Attention Hospitalized	0.760	0.723	0.735

(b) Oslo

Variable	1990	2000
A1 Cook Before Leave	0.568	0.507
A2 Disturbed Hospitalized (T)	0.604	0.559
A3 Facilities Not In Dwelling (T)	0.557	0.674
A4 Find Their Way	0.720	0.621
A5 Difficult Understand	0.430	0.438
A6 Responsibility Care (T)	−0.028	−0.126
A7 Keep Order Economy	0.682	0.631
A8 More Tax Money (T)	0.026	−0.182
A9 Accept Facilities (T)	−0.280	−0.514
A10 Think About Appearance	0.538	0.478
A11 Keep Away	0.379	0.455
A12 Like Most People	0.691	0.656
A13 More Tolerant (T)	−0.197	−0.473
A14 Too Much Money	0.391	0.386
A15 Not Responsibility (T)	0.455	0.487
A16 Foolish To Marry (T)	0.428	0.543
A17 Not Next Door (T)	0.511	0.594
A18 Resist Location (T)	0.552	0.725
A19 Attention Hospitalized	0.667	0.626