Table 2.
Factors and loadings across three activity types: Current activity, past activity, and never joined activity.
| Current Activity | Loading | Past Activity | Loading | Never Joined Activity | Loading |
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| Factor 1 | Factor 3 | Factor 3 | |||
| Learn about myself | 0.715 | People didn’t look up to me | 0.814 | Wasn’t important to me | 0.798 |
| Make good decisions | 0.715 | Didn’t make difference to | 0.716 | It wasn’t important to me | 0.789 |
| Learn about future | 0.711 | Not answer ?s about future | 0.705 | Wouldn’t be good | 0.779 |
| Relates to my goals | 0.699 | Not relate to goals | 0.704 | Wouldn’t like it | 0.767 |
| Role model | 0.688 | Not improve skills | 0.694 | Not relate to goals | 0.751 |
| I play leadership role | 0.686 | Wasn’t important to me | 0.677 | Wouldn’t like belonging | 0.735 |
| Get to help people | 0.681 | Didn’t have leadership role | 0.668 | People wouldn’t look up to me | 0.695 |
| Makes a difference | 0.618 | Didn’t like belonging | 0.655 | Wouldn’t make difference to | 0.689 |
| Important to me | 0.542 | Not make good decisions | 0.654 | Not answer ?s about future | 0.648 |
| Improve skills | 0.533 | I didn’t like it | 0.602 | No time with friends | 0.599 |
| I am good at it | 0.532 | Didn’t learn new things | 0.580 | Didn’t have leadership role | 0.563 |
| I learn new things | 0.515 | I wasn’t good at it | 0.456 | Wouldn’t meet dates | 0.489 |
| Stay out of trouble | 0.471 | Not healthy | 0.435 | ||
| I like belonging | 0.389 | Not stay out of trouble | 0.434 | ||
| Consistent with values | 0.367 | Didn’t meet dates | 0.407 | ||
| I liked a similar activity | 0.356 | Family not involved | 0.353 | ||
| Doesn’t cost too much | 0.321 | Was not a varsity sport | 0.265 | ||
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| Family Involvement | |||||
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| Factor 2 | Factor 4 | ||||
| Family is involved | 0.655 | Siblings didn’t do it | 0.765 | ||
| Parents want me to | 0.631 | Parents didn’t want me to | 0.588 | ||
| Be healthy | 0.612 | Family not involved | 0.573 | ||
| Sibling does it | 0.582 | Friends didn’t do it | 0.560 | ||
| Varsity sport | 0.470 | Not healthy | 0.433 | ||
| Required to participate | 0.374 | ||||
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| Connection to Youth | Connection to Adults and Youth | Connection to Adults and Youth | |||
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| Factor 3 | Factor 1 | Factor 1 | |||
| For youth my age | 0.711 | Adults didn’t listen to me | 0.847 | Other youth didn’t care about me | 0.835 |
| Other youth are fun | 0.698 | Adults didn’t care about me | 0.814 | Adults didn’t listen to me | 0.819 |
| Time with friends | 0.664 | Youth weren’t nice to me | 0.809 | Youth weren’t nice to me | 0.808 |
| Other youth care about me | 0.636 | Didn’t like the adults | 0.804 | Didn’t like the adults | 0.800 |
| Speaks same language | 0.596 | Other youth didn’t care about me | 0.765 | Adults didn’t care about me | 0.798 |
| Other youth are nice | 0.523 | Didn’t like the values | 0.748 | Youth weren’t fun | 0.746 |
| Friends do it | 0.479 | Youth weren’t fun | 0.707 | Didn’t get to know different youth | 0.642 |
| Other youth are like me | 0.435 | Didn’t feel safe | 0.619 | Didn’t like the values | 0.638 |
| Right amount of rules | 0.422 | Didn’t get to help people | 0.584 | Youth weren’t like me | 0.623 |
| Transportation is easy | 0.419 | Adults weren’t like me | 0.560 | Wouldn’t learn new things | 0.613 |
| Meet people to date | 0.413 | Youth weren’t like me | 0.543 | Adults weren’t like me | 0.586 |
| Get to know different youth | 0.396 | Too many rules | 0.528 | Didn’t get to help people | 0.585 |
| Offered in my community | 0.380 | No time with friends | 0.519 | Wouldn’t feel safe | 0.453 |
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| Factor 4 | Didn’t get to know different youth | 0.515 | |||
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| I like the adults | −0.866 | Friends didn’t do it | 0.502 | ||
| Adults listen | −0.814 | Not consistent with values | 0.438 | ||
| The adults care about me | −0.779 | Parents didn’t want me to | 0.413 | ||
| I feel safe | −0.590 | Siblings didn’t do it | 0.237 | ||
| Like the values of the group | −0.590 | ||||
| I like it | −0.563 | ||||
| Adults are like me | −0.516 | ||||
| Different from school | −0.376 | ||||
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| Logistic Barriers | |||||
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| Factor 2 | Factor 2 | ||||
| Trouble with the language | 0.785 | I went to work | 0.754 | ||
| No transportation | 0.711 | I had to help out at home | 0.680 | ||
| Cost too much | 0.692 | It was for little kids | 0.598 | ||
| I was too lazy | 0.621 | Trouble with the language | 0.583 | ||
| Friends wanted something else | 0.565 | Cost too much | 0.583 | ||
| Stopped being offered | 0.545 | I had to study do homework | 0.553 | ||
| I had to help out at home | 0.542 | Stopped being offered | 0.483 | ||
| Too much like school | 0.536 | No transportation | 0.479 | ||
| I went to work | 0.499 | ||||
| It was for little kids | 0.468 | ||||
| Too many requirements | 0.466 | ||||
| I had to study do homework | 0.449 | ||||
| I was too busy | 0.197 | ||||
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| Factor 5 | |||||
| Too many requirements | −0.763 | ||||
| I was too lazy | −0.754 | ||||
| Too much like school | −0.564 | ||||
| Too many rules | −0.560 | ||||
| I was too busy | −0.515 | ||||
| Friends wanted something else | −0.495 | ||||
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| Not Enhance Self | |||||
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| Factor 6 | |||||
| Not improve skills | −0.841 | ||||
| Not stay out of trouble | −0.774 | ||||
| Not make good decisions | −0.745 | ||||
| Not consistent with values | −0.558 | ||||
Note: Three separate factor analyses were conducted representing each activity type. Loadings are included for each items primary factor.