TABLE 1.
Results from exploratory factor analysis with oblique rotation.
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| Attentiveness | Equality | Respect | |
| The employees at school notice if I am angry due to something happening in the world. | 0.860 | 0.274 | 0.106 |
| When I am angry because of unfair things happening in the world, a school employee will notice it and try to help me. | 0.793 | –0.020 | –0.058 |
| When I am angry due to injustices in the world, there are school employees who ask if I am alright. | 0.774 | –0.008 | –0.034 |
| The employees at school notice it and try to help when I am angry over unfair things in the world. | 0.731 | –0.043 | –0.028 |
| The employees see it when I am frustrated over events in the world. | 0.727 | 0.019 | –0.007 |
| When I feel angry over things happening in the world, I have school employees that I can talk to. | 0.694 | –0.187 | –0.035 |
| It is easy for me to talk to employees at school when I feel anger over political issues. | 0.693 | 0.012 | 0.023 |
| The school employees are easy to find when I need someone to talk to about injustices in the world. | 0.660 | –0.017 | 0.212 |
| When someone at school expresses strong opinions, it is brought into a discussion where all sides are heard. | 0.642 | 0.003 | 0.182 |
| I can share frustrations I feel due to injustices in the world with school employees. | 0.618 | –0.338 | –0.140 |
| If I had had difficulties understanding the meaning with my life, the school employees would try to help me. | 0.590 | –0.112 | 0.178 |
| When I am angry over things happening in the world, I have employees at school who take me seriously. | 0.576 | –0.291 | 0.049 |
| At my school, the employees help us discuss strong political opinions in an open manner. | 0.561 | –0.169 | 0.003 |
| The employees at school help create a good discussion when a pupil at the school expresses political opinions that makes others react. | 0.544 | –0.169 | 0.153 |
| If I would feel that my life had no direction, the employees at the school would try to help me out. | 0.539 | –0.297 | 0.079 |
| The school employees would help me if I was unsure of my place in society. | 0.532 | –0.264 | 0.118 |
| The school employees help me find my role in society if I need it. | 0.522 | –0.289 | 0.023 |
| When I feel insecure concerning my future, the school employees try to help me. | 0.514 | –0.188 | 0.081 |
| When someone at my school shows opinions that others think are hurtful, it is dealt with in a good way by the school employees. | 0.514 | –0.001 | 0.436 |
| At school, we have discussions where I get to talk about values that are important to me. | 0.497 | –0.052 | 0.129 |
| None of the school employees notice it if I am frustrated over things happening in the world. | −0.477 | –0.123 | 0.036 |
| The school employees work toward tolerance of people with different backgrounds, political views, ethnicities, religions, and orientations. | 0.452 | –0.125 | 0.321 |
| If I am angry because of injustices in the world, there is someone at school I can share it with. | 0.356 | –0.281 | 0.016 |
| None of the school employees would try to help me if I was unsure of the meaning of my life. | –0.344 | 0.149 | 0.000 |
| It is difficult to get contact with the school employees when I am angry over things happening in the world. | –0.307 | 0.079 | 0.121 |
| I feel that the school employees rarely take what I care about in the world seriously. | –0.260 | 0.086 | –0.048 |
| I feel that the school employees treat me the same as other pupils. | 0.000 | −0.803 | 0.075 |
| I feel that the school employees treat me unfairly. | 0.138 | 0.735 | –0.010 |
| I feel that the school employees give me the same opportunities as the other pupils. | 0.045 | −0.717 | 0.028 |
| The employees treat me as fairly as they treat most other pupils at school. | 0.050 | −0.668 | 0.149 |
| The employees of the school work as much as they can for me to succeed as they work for the other pupils. | 0.164 | −0.640 | 0.105 |
| I feel accepted at the school even if I might have different opinions than the others. | 0.051 | −0.596 | 0.190 |
| The school employees make me feel as important as most other pupils. | 0.242 | −0.547 | 0.109 |
| I feel that I, with the opinions that I have, am included at the school. | 0.103 | −0.535 | 0.183 |
| I feel that my opinions are heard and respected even if the school employees disagree with me. | 0.303 | −0.510 | 0.132 |
| I feel like a part of the school’s community even if my opinions can be different from the others.’ | 0.163 | −0.468 | 0.244 |
| The school employees take my opinions seriously even if they disagree with me. | 0.384 | –0.455 | 0.048 |
| My opinions are respected by the school employees even if they might disagree with me. | 0.290 | −0.445 | 0.162 |
| At my school we make an effort for there to be an inclusive school environment. | 0.269 | −0.444 | 0.190 |
| At our school it is important that pupils are respected regardless of their background. | 0.113 | −0.441 | 0.160 |
| I can tell my opinions to the school employees even if the disagree with me. | 0.333 | –0.423 | 0.180 |
| I feel that I fit in at school even if I have some opinions that are different from those of others. | 0.163 | –0.377 | 0.336 |
| At school, we rarely talk about how to behave with people who are different. | –0.075 | 0.131 | 0.068 |
| At school, everyone is respected regardless of which group they belong to in society. | 0.060 | –0.128 | 0.750 |
| At school, everyone is respected as they are. | 0.158 | –0.060 | 0.710 |
| I experience that the pupil environment at the school accepts people who are different. | 0.068 | –0.238 | 0.486 |
| I feel that those who have different opinions than most others are excluded from the school environment. | –0.092 | –0.038 | –0.321 |
| At school, there is little acceptance of pupils who stand out as different in the society. | 0.112 | 0.114 | –0.274 |
Extraction method: Maximum Likelihood. Rotation method: Oblimin with Kaiser Normalization. Items in bold have loadings >0.4 on their main factor and cross-loadings below 0.32. These items were used to create the scales.