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. 2015 Aug;39(4):178–182. doi: 10.1192/pb.bp.114.047951

Table 2.

Summary of principal component analysis for traumatic experiencesa

Rotated factor loadings
Human rights
abuses
Traumatic
loss
Lack of basic
human needs
Separation
from others
Threatened to be executed 0.78 0.13 −0.13 0.09

Physical torture 0.77 −0.10 −0.03 −0.12

Threatened to be physically tortured 0.77 −0.03 −0.10 −0.08

Threatened to watch torturing 0.66 0.04 0.07 −0.04

Serious injury 0.50 0.01 0.21 0.11

Lost or kidnapped 0.46 0.15 0.13 −0.04

Imprisonment 0.46 −0.04 0.16 −0.28

Murder of family or friend 0.02 0.85 −0.04 0.01

Unnatural death of family or friend −0.12 0.79 0.04 −0.11

Murder of stranger or strangers 0.15 0.63 0.03 0.02

Lack of shelter −0.03 0.05 0.79 0.12

Lack of food or water −0.07 0.03 0.78 −0.15

Ill health without access to medical care 0.13 −0.03 0.68 −0.07

Forced separation from family members −0.04 0.09 −0.02 −0.85

Forced isolation from others 0.14 0.03 0.06 −0.75
a.

Factor loadings over 0.40 appear in bold.