Table 2.
Confirmatory factor analysis pattern matrix loadings (N=561)
| Items | Factor loading
|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| Factor 1: personal affairs’ intervention | |||||
| Gossiped behind your back | 0.77 | 0.20 | 0.20 | 0.12 | 0.16 |
| Talked about you behind your back | 0.75 | 0.13 | 0.27 | 0.18 | 0.09 |
| Secretly tried to know what you are doing | 0.62 | 0.31 | 0.11 | 0.18 | 0.19 |
| Publicly discussed your confidential personal information | 0.58 | 0.11 | 0.14 | 0.25 | 0.20 |
| Intervened in your personal affairs | 0.57 | 0.17 | 0.19 | 0.16 | 0.27 |
| Brought up your past problems | 0.55 | 0.26 | 0.35 | 0.22 | 0.13 |
| Factor 2: abandonment | |||||
| Was excessively slow in returning your electronic messages or emails without good reason for the delay | 0.03 | 0.67 | 0.09 | 0.07 | 0.25 |
| Ignored opinions you offered in the meeting forum | 0.23 | 0.64 | 0.21 | 0.18 | 0.15 |
| Avoided consulting you when they would normally be expected to do so | 0.42 | 0.57 | 0.04 | −0.02 | 0.10 |
| Responded to your questions in short and unfriendly ways | 0.39 | 0.54 | 0.29 | 0.11 | 0.11 |
| Did not consult you in reference to a decision you should have been involved in | 0.06 | 0.53 | 0.22 | 0.41 | 0.04 |
| Broke his/her promise to you without feeling guilty | 0.34 | 0.53 | 0.15 | 0.38 | 0.09 |
| Intentionally failed to pass on information which you should have been made aware of | 0.31 | 0.52 | 0.15 | 0.29 | 0.10 |
| Showed anger by way of ignoring you | 0.42 | 0.52 | 0.19 | 0.11 | 0.17 |
| Factor 3: unfriendly communication | |||||
| Spoke rudely to you in public | 0.29 | 0.23 | 0.70 | 0.05 | 0.16 |
| Raised their voice while speaking to you | 0.07 | 0.15 | 0.66 | 0.23 | 0.07 |
| Used an inappropriate tone when speaking to you | 0.24 | 0.01 | 0.64 | 0.10 | 0.29 |
| Reprimanded you in front of unconcerned others | 0.26 | 0.32 | 0.60 | 0.07 | 0.13 |
| Made cynical remarks about you | 0.49 | 0.21 | 0.52 | 0.21 | 0.08 |
| Factor 4: inconsiderate behavior | |||||
| Gave you orders which are unrelated to job | 0.27 | 0.20 | 0.19 | 0.64 | 0.15 |
| Claimed your work as his/hers | 0.31 | 0.22 | 0.05 | 0.57 | 0.05 |
| Asked you to do some work without considering your condition | 0.19 | 0.42 | 0.36 | 0.51 | 0.17 |
| Prohibited you to do something while he/she broke it | 0.37 | 0.43 | 0.24 | 0.47 | 0.14 |
| Factor 5: privacy invasion | |||||
| Took items from your desk without prior permission | 0.09 | 0.08 | 0.12 | 0.49 | 0.64 |
| Opened your desk drawers without prior permission | 0.15 | 0.14 | 0.16 | 0.21 | 0.60 |
| Read communications addressed to you, such as emails, faxes, or SMS without prior permission | 0.32 | 0.15 | −0.04 | −0.18 | 0.58 |
| Took stationery from your desk without later returning it | 0.04 | −0.01 | 0.11 | 0.54 | 0.57 |
| Turned on the music loud so that it interfered with your work | 0.20 | 0.25 | 0.19 | 0.06 | 0.54 |
Notes: Extraction method: principal component analysis. Rotation method: varimax with Kaiser normalization. Rotation converged in 25 iterations. Values in bold show that the value is the highest loading factor compared to other values.
Abbreviation: SMS, short message service.