Table 2.
Component loadings for five dimensions
| Variable | Dimension | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| Responds to child | 1.148 | −0.336 | |||
| Comfort child | 1.129 | −0.316 | |||
| Enjoys contact | 1.103 | −0.300 | |||
| Accommodation | 0.560 | −0.334 | −0.343 | ||
| Financial situation | 0.528 | ||||
| Access to car | 0.518 | ||||
| Employment of mother | 0.512 | ||||
| Employment of father | 0.455 | ||||
| Social support network | 0.435 | 0.424 | |||
| Mothers health | 0.421 | 0.421 | |||
| Marital status | 0.413 | −0.308 | −0.562 | ||
| Country of birth | 0.527 | ||||
| Health of child | 0.400 | 0.492 | |||
| Education of mother | 0.386 | ||||
| Emotional support | 0.370 | ||||
| Unplanned pregnancy | 0.363 | −0.344 | |||
| Practical support | 0.345 | ||||
| Regret leaving suburb | 0.328 | ||||
| Baby trouble sleeping | 0.751 | ||||
| Baby difficult to comfort | 0.741 | ||||
| Baby demanding | 0.320 | 0.735 | |||
| Baby difficult feeder | 0.612 | ||||
| Baby content | 0.664 | ||||
| Number of children under 5 | 0.746 | ||||
| Household size | 0.634 | ||||
| Suburb duration | |||||
| Maternal expectations | 0.301 | ||||
| Breast feeding | |||||
| Total (Eigenvalue) | 4.16 | 3.67 | 3.21 | 1.91 | 1.38 |
| Cronbach’s alpha | 0.79 | 0.75 | 0.72 | 0.48 | 0.28 |
| Percentage of variance | 14 | 13 | 11.5 | 6.8 | 4.9 |
Component loadings greater than 0.40 are in italic and loadings less that 0.30 are suppressed