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

Table 3

(a) Factor loadings from separate analyses of Lofoten samples in 1983, 1990, and 2000. Maximum likelihood factoring of transformed scores with oblimin rotation. (b) Factor loadings from separate analyses of Oslo samples in 1990 and 2000. Maximum likelihood factoring of transformed scores with oblimin rotation.

(a)  

Lofoten	1983			1990			2000
Variable	Factor 1	Factor 2	Factor 3	Factor 1	Factor 2	Factor 3	Factor 1	Factor 2	Factor 3
A1 Cook Before Leave	−0.006	0.070	−0.728	−0.080	0.045	−0.791	−0.099	−0.006	−0.864
A2 Disturbed Hospitalized (T)	0.122	−0.101	−0.717	0.303	0.020	−0.483	0.207	−0.002	−0.608
A3 Facilities Not In Dwelling (T)	0.300	−0.049	−0.471	0.433	−0.024	−0.338	0.381	−0.124	−0.338
A4 Find Their Way	−0.169	0.028	−0.939	−0.050	0.024	−0.917	−0.102	0.033	−0.932
A5 Difficult Understand	0.111	0.075	−0.531	0.158	0.146	−0.465	0.177	0.047	−0.448
A6 Responsibility Care (T)	0.118	0.697	0.049	0.052	0.684	−0.043	0.028	0.507	−0.109
A7 Keep Order Economy	−0.072	0.061	−0.855	0.076	0.007	−0.769	0.086	0.064	−0.729
A8 More Tax Money (T)	0.045	0.684	−0.059	0.030	0.584	−0.161	0.056	0.657	−0.055
A9 Accept Facilities (T)	−0.081	0.670	−0.036	−0.071	0.715	0.021	−0.041	0.722	0.045
A10 Think About Appearance	0.130	0.105	−0.565	0.325	0.124	−0.356	0.394	0.153	−0.271
A11 Keep Away	0.642	0.060	−0.044	0.748	0.048	0.022	0.665	0.048	0.038
A12 Like Most People	0.254	−0.029	−0.616	0.440	−0.016	−0.410	0.429	0.013	−0.412
A13 More Tolerant (T)	−0.012	0.659	0.000	0.021	0.738	0.084	−0.026	0.616	0.060
A14 Too Much Money	0.658	0.064	−0.024	0.604	0.039	0.010	0.478	0.001	−0.035
A15 Not Responsibility (T)	0.683	−0.020	−0.112	0.765	0.000	0.012	0.666	0.029	−0.004
A16 Foolish To Marry (T)	0.699	0.044	−0.074	0.684	0.082	−0.049	0.711	0.159	0.048
A17 Not Next Door (T)	0.830	0.009	0.034	0.840	−0.030	0.049	0.729	−0.087	−0.003
A18 Resist Location (T)	0.786	−0.019	0.005	0.795	−0.033	0.048	0.708	−0.190	−0.060
A19 Attention Hospitalized	0.278	0.003	−0.560	0.616	0.002	−0.236	0.434	−0.004	−0.402

(b)  

Oslo	1983			1990			2000
Variable	Factor 1	Factor 2	Factor 3	Factor 1	Factor 2	Factor 3	Factor 1	Factor 2	Factor 3
A1 Cook Before Leave				−0.042	0.048	−0.762	−0.087	0.044	−0.821
A2 Disturbed Hospitalized (T)				0.266	0.127	−0.499	0.277	0.041	−0.493
A3 Facilities Not In Dwelling (T)				0.535	−0.061	−0.249	0.323	−0.384	−0.377
A4 Find Their Way				−0.049	−0.019	−0.926	−0.052	−0.022	−0.866
A5 Difficult Understand				0.304	0.106	−0.332	0.422	0.014	−0.134
A6 Responsibility Care (T)				0.239	0.586	0.017	0.063	0.319	−0.083
A7 Keep Order Economy				0.037	0.048	−0.767	0.194	0.075	−0.632
A8 More Tax Money (T)				0.024	0.632	−0.130	0.008	0.470	−0.115
A9 Accept Facilities (T)				−0.144	0.786	−0.025	0.000	0.794	0.147
A10 Think About Appearance				0.264	0.171	−0.399	0.464	0.063	−0.197
A11 Keep Away				0.623	0.205	−0.021	0.671	0.048	0.086
A12 Like Most People				0.428	−0.004	−0.427	0.520	0.003	−0.301
A13 More Tolerant (T)				0.009	0.723	0.031	−0.055	0.512	0.050
A14 Too Much Money				0.585	0.003	−0.070	0.495	−0.049	0.046
A15 Not Responsibility (T)				0.702	0.086	−0.002	0.658	0.086	0.033
A16 Foolish To Marry (T)				0.690	0.083	0.008	0.663	0.035	−0.010
A17 Not Next Door (T)				0.869	−0.033	0.078	0.758	−0.111	0.110
A18 Resist Location (T)				0.825	−0.125	−0.015	0.598	−0.371	−0.101
A19 Attention Hospitalized				0.477	0.016	−0.376	0.585	0.029	−0.210