Health Care Professionals’ Knowledge of Stalking Perpetrators, Victims, Behaviors, and Coping Strategies: A Preliminary Study among Italian Hospitals

Table 4

Factorial analysis of the stalkers’ behavioral typicality: the structure of health care professionals’ beliefs.

	F1	F2	F3
	Harassment and intimidation	Surveillance tactics	Invasion tactics
1. Sexual aggression	0.910
2. Physical assault	0.869
3. Threat of sexual aggression	0.757
4. Threat of harassment of third parties	0.750
5. Threat of physical assault	0.744
6. Harassment of third parties	0.659
7. Home visiting	0.638
8. Waiting outside home		0.898
9. Following		0.872
10. Visiting workplace/school		0.798
11. Unwanted communication		0.700
12. Spying		0.638
13. Deceiving			0.843
14. Sending unwanted gift			0.719
15. Manipulating			0.699
16. Spreading lies			0.682
17. Property damage			0.669
18. Communicating through a website		0.397	0.446