Table 3.

Factor Loadings for Work Stress Responses among Australian Veterinarians

Dimensions of Stressa	Factor 1	Factor 2	Factor 3	Factor 4
Long working hours	0.802	0.316	0.113	0.012
Not enough rest	0.748	0.242	0.153	0.169
Not enough holidays	0.748	0.267	0.203	-0.033
Too many patients/day	0.763	-0.058	0.147	0.301
Not enough time per patient	0.740	-0.045	0.096	0.349
Career structure	0.351	0.608	0.088	0.281
Future promotion	0.021	0.818	0.027	0.263
Adequate salary	0.258	0.791	0.171	0.034
Fear of litigation	0.179	0.039	0.693	0.184
Danger from animals	0.154	0.068	0.827	0.076
Danger from diseases	0.097	0.124	0.798	0.062
Colleagues attitude	0.276	0.103	0.117	0.717
Superiors attitude	0.003	0.499	0.045	0.628
No colleague recognition	0.194	0.224	0.211	0.708

^a Adapted from previous studies of veterinary stress [11,12,19] as indicated on Table 1, Cronbach's Alpha = 0.869