Table 3. Summary of item communalities...

Table 3.

Summary of item communalities and SEM factor loadings for the PSC-measurement approach proposed by Weaver (2020b)

Item		Communality				FL in SEM
Item		LF1	LF 2	LF 3	LF 4	FL in SEM
Health and Human Security (LF 1)	1. Providing opportunities that benefit health (including reproductive), nourishment and life expectancy	0.49	0.46	0.38	0.39	0.59
	2. Offering opportunities that foster mental health and that advance an individual’s ability to connect with others on an emotional level	0.70	0.30	0.24	0.32	0.78
	3. Providing opportunities that enable individuals to protect themselves from violent assault or cope after directly or indirectly surviving violent assault	0.29	0.70	0.39	0.16	0.68
Social Mobility (LF 2)	4. Providing services or products that advance educational development, including opportunities that foster critical thinking, imagination and reasoning	0.65	−0.07	0.51	0.18	0.56
	5. Providing opportunities that enable individuals to make plans towards reaching their life goals, as well as to critically reflect on them	0.13	0.81	0.13	0.15	0.68
	6. Providing opportunities that help people obtain and own property, including houses, cars and other material goods	0.79	0.21	−0.03	0.20	0.49
	7. Providing opportunities that enable people to prepare and/or obtain employment	0.22	0.61	0.15	0.25	0.57
Social, Political and Environmental Engagement (LF 3)	8. Providing opportunities that enable people to organize around social issues and/or providing spaces of inclusion	0.25	0.37	0.70	−0.02	0.79
	9. Providing opportunities that enable individuals to deal with issues related to discrimination and/or to mobilize against such issues	0.09	0.20	0.82	0.23	0.64
	10. Providing opportunities that foster human interaction with things of nature, such as plants, animals and the overall environment	0.33	0.24	0.56	0.24	0.54
	11. Providing opportunities that help people to engage in their political system, informing them of their rights and/or striving to protect their rights	0.69	0.36	0.24	−0.13	0.52
SE and SR (LF 4)	12. Providing opportunities that enable people to express themselves in a diversity of ways, including through art, religion and politics	0.37	0.29	0.24	0.70	†
SE and SR (LF 4)	13. Providing opportunities that foster social interaction and participation in recreational activities that make them laugh or play	0.05	0.17	0.06	0.87	†

Item		Communality				FL in SEM
Item		LF1	LF 2	LF 3	LF 4	FL in SEM
Health and Human Security (LF 1)	1. Providing opportunities that benefit health (including reproductive), nourishment and life expectancy	0.49	0.46	0.38	0.39	0.59
	2. Offering opportunities that foster mental health and that advance an individual’s ability to connect with others on an emotional level	0.70	0.30	0.24	0.32	0.78
	3. Providing opportunities that enable individuals to protect themselves from violent assault or cope after directly or indirectly surviving violent assault	0.29	0.70	0.39	0.16	0.68
Social Mobility (LF 2)	4. Providing services or products that advance educational development, including opportunities that foster critical thinking, imagination and reasoning	0.65	−0.07	0.51	0.18	0.56
	5. Providing opportunities that enable individuals to make plans towards reaching their life goals, as well as to critically reflect on them	0.13	0.81	0.13	0.15	0.68
	6. Providing opportunities that help people obtain and own property, including houses, cars and other material goods	0.79	0.21	−0.03	0.20	0.49
	7. Providing opportunities that enable people to prepare and/or obtain employment	0.22	0.61	0.15	0.25	0.57
Social, Political and Environmental Engagement (LF 3)	8. Providing opportunities that enable people to organize around social issues and/or providing spaces of inclusion	0.25	0.37	0.70	−0.02	0.79
	9. Providing opportunities that enable individuals to deal with issues related to discrimination and/or to mobilize against such issues	0.09	0.20	0.82	0.23	0.64
	10. Providing opportunities that foster human interaction with things of nature, such as plants, animals and the overall environment	0.33	0.24	0.56	0.24	0.54
	11. Providing opportunities that help people to engage in their political system, informing them of their rights and/or striving to protect their rights	0.69	0.36	0.24	−0.13	0.52
SE and SR (LF 4)	12. Providing opportunities that enable people to express themselves in a diversity of ways, including through art, religion and politics	0.37	0.29	0.24	0.70	†
SE and SR (LF 4)	13. Providing opportunities that foster social interaction and participation in recreational activities that make them laugh or play	0.05	0.17	0.06	0.87	†

Notes:

Communalities after extraction of four factors and varimax rotation are shown; SE and SR: self-expression and social relationships; FL in SEM: factor loading in structural equation model; communalities and factor loadings ≥0.70 are printed in italic; internal consistencies: α_{LF 1} = 0.85; α_{LF 2} = 0.66; α_{LF 3} = 0.67; α_{LF 4} = 0.70; N = 347; PSC = positive social change; LF = latent factor, each latent factor corresponds to one thematic category identified by Weaver (2020b); †: for SE and SR no SEM factor loadings could be computed as the model was unidentified

Source: Authors’ own work

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