Table 3.
Principal component of rainfed smallholder farmers' coping response.
| Coping response (key) | Components (factor) |
Communalities (%) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cognitive restructuring coping (1) | Resources seeking coping (2) | Experiential avoidance coping (3) | Expressive coping (4) | Capital disinvestment coping (5) | Relying on social networks coping (6) | ||
| Household transfers and loans | 0.834 | 77 | |||||
| Harvesting edible fruits and vegetables | 0.733 | 62 | |||||
| Renting farm tools/animals | −0.649 | 57 | |||||
| Reduce social gatherings | 0.562 | 63 | |||||
| Government support | 0.847 | 74 | |||||
| Begging for food or support | −0.836 | 72 | |||||
| Sale of livestock | −0.851 | 76 | |||||
| Migration in search of job | 0.806 | 71 | |||||
| Wage labour | 0.804 | 73 | |||||
| Petty trading and agro business | −0.674 | 59 | |||||
| Charcoal burning | 0.497 | 54 | |||||
| Renting land | 0.802 | 71 | |||||
| Support from NGOs | 0.682 | 63 | |||||
| Aid or Gifts from friends | 0.818 | 69 | |||||
| Hunting | 0.79 | 65 | |||||
| Eigenvalues (%) | 2.428 | 1.937 | 1.575 | 1.475 | 1.44 | 1.204 | |
| Explained variance (%) | 12.14 | 9.687 | 7.874 | 7.373 | 7.199 | 6.018 | |
Extraction Method: Principal Component Analysis (PCA); Rotation method: VARIMAX with Kaiser Normalisation; Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin Measure of Sampling Adequacy (0.70, chi-square = 640.51, Sig = 0.001).
Source: Author's construct (2022)