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

Table 6

Factorial analysis of the predisposing factors for the stalking behaviors: the structure of health care professionals’ beliefs.

	Affectivity dysregulation	Cognitive problems	Social problems
1. Atypical view of love	0.849
2. Anger	0.761
3. Violent attitude	0.685
4. Frustration	0.654
5. Jealousy	0.386
6. Insecurity	0.373	0.334
7. Fear of abandonment		0.725
8. Need for attention		0.698
9. Low self-esteem		0.649
10. Desire for control		0.624	−0.305
11. Low cultural level			0.844
12. Abuse of alcohol and drugs			0.659
13. Social maladjustment	0.387		0.570
14. Childhood trauma		0.324	0.375

Note. Principal component extraction, direct Oblimin rotation, and Kaiser normalization; factors loading <0.3 omitted.