Table 2.

Two factor EFA results for the sample of women residing in Kenya (n = 100)

Stigma items	Felt stigma loading	Enacted stigma loading	Residual variance
Feelings of worthlessness, of having no value (i)	0.95*	− 0.38*	0.21
Feeling detached or withdrawn from others (i)	0.96*	− 0.31*	0.19
Feeling badly treated by family members (p)a	0.53*	0.23	0.58
Feeling badly treated by community members (p)	0.99*	− 0.25*	0.14
Feeling shame (i)	0.91*	0.01	0.16
Blaming yourself for past events (i)	0.77*	0.14	0.31
Feeling rejected by everybody (i)	0.94*	− 0.07	0.16
Feeling stigma (p)	0.91*	0.04	0.15
Wanting to avoid others or hide (i)	0.82*	0.09	0.29
Feeling like your family gazes at you like they are blaming you (p)	0.63*	0.25	0.43
Feeling like community members gaze at you like they are blaming you (p)	0.94*	0.03	0.10
Wanting to change the way you dress (i)	0.29	0.01	0.91
Been abandoned/thrown out of your home (e)	0.05	0.90*	0.16
Rejected by your family because of trauma you experienced (e)	0.19	0.84*	0.15
Rejected by your intimate partner because of trauma you experienced (e)	0.002	0.96*	0.08
Forced to live away from husband because of violence you experienced (e)	− 0.03	0.95*	0.13

^aThough this item loaded above 0.4, dropping it from the scale improved the alpha by ≥ 0.001, and thus it was not retained

*Loading significant at p < 0.05; e = enacted stigma item; i = internalized stigma item; p = perceived stigma item; Bold indicates the item was retained for future analyses