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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Psychol Med. 2010 Apr 6;41(1):85–96. doi: 10.1017/S0033291710000450

Table 2.

Co-morbidity and factor analysis of family childhood adversities (FCAs)

Percentage of respondents
with a given FCA who also
had at least one other FCA
Mean number of FCAs
among those with more
than one FCA
Factor loadings
Adversity types % (s.e.) Mean no. (s.e.) Factor 1 Factor 2 Factor 3
I. Family-dysfunction FCAs
 (included in Factor 1)
   Parent mental disorders 51.9 (7.4) 2.4 (0.1) 0.63 −0.02 −0.07
   Parental maladjustment 85.4 (6.5) 2.5 (0.1) 0.79 −0.12 −0.01
   Childhood maltreatment 52.3 (4.6) 2.2 (0.0) 0.56 0.27 0.15
II. Other FCAs (included in
 Factor 2 or Factor 3)
   Parental death 25.8 (4.4) 2.2 (0.1) 0.01 −0.04 0.98
   Parental loss other than death 43.1 (5.5) 2.3 (0.1) 0.12 0.69 −0.15
   Serious physical illness 58.9 (12.0) 2.3 (0.1) −0.12 0.75 0.08

s.e., Standard error.