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Table 2 Component loadings for five dimensions

From: Being alone and expectations lost: a critical realist study of maternal depression in South Western Sydney

Variable	Dimension
Variable	1	2	3	4	5
Responds to child	1.148	−0.336
Comfort child	1.129	−0.316
Enjoys contact	1.103	−0.300
Accommodation		0.560	−0.334	−0.343
Financial situation		0.528
Access to car		0.518
Employment of mother		0.512
Employment of father		0.455
Social support network		0.435		0.424
Mothers health		0.421		0.421
Marital status		0.413	−0.308	−0.562
Country of birth				0.527
Health of child		0.400		0.492
Education of mother		0.386
Emotional support		0.370
Unplanned pregnancy		0.363		−0.344
Practical support		0.345
Regret leaving suburb		0.328
Baby trouble sleeping			0.751
Baby difficult to comfort			0.741
Baby demanding		0.320	0.735
Baby difficult feeder			0.612
Baby content			0.664
Number of children under 5					0.746
Household size					0.634
Suburb duration
Maternal expectations			0.301
Breast feeding
Total (Eigenvalue)	4.16	3.67	3.21	1.91	1.38
Cronbach’s alpha	0.79	0.75	0.72	0.48	0.28
Percentage of variance	14	13	11.5	6.8	4.9

Component loadings greater than 0.40 are in italic and loadings less that 0.30 are suppressed

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