Table 3.

Items, component loadings, item means, standard deviations, and communalities for HIV microaggressions

Item	Factor loadings			Scale if items are deleted				Factor	Item parameters
	1	2	3	All	1	2	3		M	SD	h2
1. Someone assumed you must be depressed because of your HIV status.	.71	.12	.37	.79	.69	-	-	1	1.38	1.18	.53
2. Someone assumed you don’t or shouldn’t have sex because of your HIV status.	.69	.09	.46	.78	.69	-	-	1	1.49	1.17	.66
3. Someone’s body language showed you that they were bothered because of your HIV status.	.81	.16	.30	.78	.64	-	-	1	1.26	1.17	.43
4. You weren’t included in a group event because of your HIV status.	.63	.23	.09	.80	.75	-	-	1	.42	.84	.37
5. You felt that other health conditions (such as breast cancer or heart disease) received more public support than HIV.	.60	.14	.29	.80	.75	-	-	1	1.62	1.22	.23
6. You avoided circumstances where people might ask questions about your health.	.19	.81	.31	.80	-	n/a	-	2	1.56	1.09	.72
7. You avoided reading the comments section on online articles about HIV.	.27	.84	.03	.81	-	n/a	-	2	.91	1.04	.74
8. You heard about people trying to make or enforce laws that harm people with HIV.	.35	.03	.44	.81	-	-	.73	3	1.40	1.16	.35
9. In an online dating profile, someone wrote “drug/disease free, UB2” or neg for neg only,” etc.	.24	.09	.59	.80	-	-	.69	3	2.50	.90	.51
10. Someone seemed surprised to learn that people living with HIV would want to have children.	.59	.07	.58	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	1.80	1.09	.51
11. You heard someone say, “I’m HIV negative, I’m clean.”	.01	.13	.67	.81	-	-	.70	3	2.44	.86	.52
12. You saw an HIV positive person portrayed negatively in the media.	.37	.16	.63	.79	-	-	.67	3	1.75	1.02	.42
13. You heard about someone being outed about their HIV status.	.46	.14	.71	.79	-	-	.64	3	2.15	.92	.61
14. You heard someone say, “but he or she doesn’t look HIV positive.”	.49	-.10	.72	.79	-	-	.66	3	2.38	.85	.51

Note. Values in boldface type are component loadings at or above the criteria for selection (.40). Item 14 was deleted due to double loading.