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ii) Confirmatory factor analysis will be performed to assess construct validity by determining if items load adequately (factor loadings >0.3) [ 29, 30] onto a domain category.
The rotated factor loadings indicated that five items load high on the first factor "social support" and this accounted for 49.9% of the total variance (Table 4).
The rotated factor loadings indicated that seven items load highly on the first factor on social support ("I find support from supervisors", "I receive positive comments", "My colleagues are helpful", "My supervisors are helpful", "I get personal advice from my colleagues", "My supervisors are considerate" and "I have no contact with other colleagues") accounting for 53.2% of the total variance.
The rotated factor loadings indicated that three items load highly on the first factor on work environment ("The work flow goes smoothly", "I can ask and enquire about my work" and "My work atmosphere is comfortable") accounting for 26.8% of the total variance.
Analysis of the side-loadings of item pool 2 revealed that several items load also on the other sub-scale.
All 10 items load in the same direction on this factor, with loadings falling in a narrow range from roughly 0.25 to 0.35.
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Ten items had double loadings and two items loaded on three factors.
Finally, a total of 15 items loaded to the third factor, with generally lower loadings.
Annoyance items loaded on to two different factors termed nighttime and daytime annoyance.
Principal components analysis of COPS items revealed a single factor, and all items loaded highly.
Not all of the original items loaded on this factor.
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