Table 4.
Factor Loadings and Communality Estimates (h2) for Retained Items using Principal Axis Factoring and Promax Rotation.
| Item | Factor 1 | Factor 2 | Factor 3 | h2 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 37. | Everyone around you is vaping, and you are the only one who is not. Your friend offers you a hit. | 0.941 | −0.145 | 0.020 | 0.702 |
| 34. | There are places that are dark where vaping devices cannot be seen (e.g., movie theatres). While inside one of these places, your friend asks you to take a hit off of his/her vape. | 0.826 | 0.151 | −0.257 | 0.691 |
| 33. | Your friend has the latest vape flavor and offers to let you try it. | 0.797 | 0.096 | −0.068 | 0.693 |
| 27. | Your friend keeps pestering you to try vaping and tells you that it is good for you. | 0.782 | −0.242 | 0.075 | 0.460 |
| 31. | Your friend offers you a hit off his/her vape and tells you that you will not get addicted. | 0.726 | 0.084 | 0.035 | 0.648 |
| 9. | You run into two friends vaping inside the shopping mall. They ask you if you want to take a hit. | 0.712 | 0.219 | −0.267 | 0.594 |
| 1. | Your classmate has pulled the sleeve of his hoodie over his hand to hide his vape pen and is vaping in class through his sleeve. He looks up at you and says, “Eh, you like try?” | 0.684 | −0.236 | 0.284 | 0.526 |
| 40. | Your friend is going to have a bag search. (S)he asks you to hold and hide their vape device and says you can use it. | 0.681 | 0.101 | 0.010 | 0.578 |
| 35. | You and your friends think the older kids in your school look cool when they vape. Your friend asks you if you want to try it. | 0.671 | −0.128 | 0.259 | 0.568 |
| 7. | Your friend asks you to try vaping because he/she does not want to vape alone. | 0.645 | −0.261 | −0.328 | 0.507 |
| 3. | Your close friend, whom you have known for a long time, keeps asking you over and over if you want to try vaping with him/her. | 0.643 | 0.005 | 0.107 | 0.502 |
| 26 | Your friend tells you that the smoke from vaping is not as harmful if you just puff on it rather than take a big inhale, so you should try it. | 0.623 | 0.013 | 0.206 | 0.578 |
| 25. | Kids who vape go to a part of the school that is off-limits because they know teachers will not monitor that area. Your friends start walking over there and tell you to come along. | 0.615 | 0.085 | 0.161 | 0.599 |
| 29. | During class, kids take a hit from a vape device and blow the smoke into their shirts. They tell you to take a hit and do the same thing. | 0.587 | 0.176 | 0.105 | 0.610 |
| 28. | You are feeling really sad, and your friend says taking a hit from their marijuana dab pen will help you feel better. | 0.553 | 0.246 | −0.008 | 0.548 |
| 30. | Your boyfriend or girlfriend offers you their vaping device to use. | 0.105 | 0.788 | −0.112 | 0.671 |
| 15. | Your brother/sister and their friend are getting high from a marijuana dab pen in your brother/sister’s bedroom. You walk in on them, and they ask you if you want to try it. | −0.227 | 0.784 | 0.150 | 0.507 |
| 39. | A bigger kid in your school offers you a vape and says (s)he’ll beat you up if you say no. | −0.154 | 0.675 | 0.247 | 0.499 |
| 21. | Someone you know at school is using a marijuana dab pen and offers to sell you a hit from it. | 0.057 | 0.607 | 0.179 | 0.555 |
| 38. | Your older sibling has a marijuana dab pen. It would be easy to steal it from them and use it. | 0.085 | 0.554 | −0.079 | 0.342 |
| 8. | Kids are passing around a vape beneath the desks in class. When it gets to you, the student who passes it to you says, “Eh, go smoke ‘um at recess.” | −0.077 | 0.278 | 0.636 | 0.557 |
| 4. | Someone tells you that he/she is going to spread a nasty rumor about you unless you try vaping with him/her. | −0.054 | 0.038 | 0.600 | 0.347 |
| 2. | A big kid follows you and your friend into the bathroom at recess. He corners you and tries to make you buy a vape. | −0.028 | −0.071 | 0.564 | 0.277 |