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. 2021 Aug 4;159(2):667–705. doi: 10.1007/s11205-021-02767-8

Table 7.

Principal component analysis results

Micro-level insecurity Macro-level insecurity
Eigenvalue Eigenvalue
Component 1 1.518 Component 1 1.768
Component 2 0.895 Component 2 0.814
Component 3 0.588 Component 3 0.418
Correlation with Correlation with
Variable Component 1 Variable Component 1
Financial state will worsen 0.602 Economy will worsen 0.442
Financial state worsened 0.662 Economy has worsened 0.637
Is currently job insecure 0.447 Current economy is poor 0.632

Dataset: 2016 American National Election Studies. Each variable is reported on a 5-point scale, increasing in agreement with the statement. However, prior to running this analysis, each variable was standardized to have a mean of 0 and standard deviation of 1