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Table 3 Principal component analysis for professionals: representative questions and output loading (Varimax variation)

From: Conceptualizing sexual and gender-based violence in European asylum reception centers

Professionals

SEXUAL VIOLENCE

PCA Loading output

PC15 – Sexual innuendo

 Unwelcome and unwanted sexual comments or invitations to girls/women.

0.619

 And if this happens to boys/men?

0.600

PC3 – Visual sexual harassment

 Made to watch somebody undress as a girl/woman?

0.858

 And if this happens to boys/men?

0.879

 Made to watch photos of naked persons as a girl/woman?

0.887

 And if this happens to boys/men?

0.817

PC14 – Denudement

 Having to undress in front of other people watching as a girl/woman?

0.698

 And if this happens to boys/men?

0.799

PC1 –Abuse, Rape and Trafficking

 Unwelcome penetration of the vagina and/or anus by an organ or by an object of girls/women?

0.930

 And if this happens to boys/men?

0.930

 Trafficking of people for their organs?

0.833

 And if this happens to boys/men?

0.833

PC10 – Sexual exploitation

 Sex with a girl/woman in exchange for survival, food for the children, shelter, money, papers, other favors.

0.916

 And if this happens to boys/men?

0.916

PHYSICAL VIOLENCE

 PC8 – Physical assault without permanent consequences

  Physical assault with no permanent consequences (e.g. hitting, kicking, pulling)

0.773

  And if this happens to boys/men?

0.790

 PC5 – Physical assault with permanent consequences

  Physical assault with permanent consequences (e.g. burning, stabbing, maiming)

0.877

  And if this happens to boys/men?

0.877

  Killing a girl/woman in the name of family honor?

0.798

  And if this happens to boys/men?

0.843

PSYCHOLOGICAL VIOLENCE

 PC 12 – Threat and humiliation

  Threatening of girls/women with unwelcome not sexual acts (make you feel scared.…)

0.548

  And if this happens to boys/men?

0.549

  Teasing, showing no respect, racist or discriminating comments to a girl/woman?

0.546

  And if this happens to boys/men?

0.546

 PC9 – Verbal violence

  Unwelcome remarks and comments from nonsexual nature to girls/women.

0.759

  And if this happens to boys/men?

0.759

 PC13 – Confinement, individual level

  As a girl/woman to be isolated, confined and/or deprived of liberty of movement

0.720

  And if this happens to boys/men?

0.642

 PC6 – Relational violence

  Someone denying a girl/woman to be together with his or her partner in private?

0.863

  And if this happens to boys/men?

0.862

  Someone denying a girl/woman to be together with her parents or children in private.

0.812

  And if this happens to boys/men?

0.812

 PC16 – Parental relational violence

  Someone denying a girl/woman to fulfill her role as a mother (no money for food)

0.669

  And if this happens to boys/men?

0.669

HARMFUL CULTURAL PRACTICES

 PC17 – Genital mutilation

  Circumcision of girl/woman?

0.417

  And if this happens to boys/men?

0.632

 PC7 – Early marriage

  Child marriage of a girl/woman?

0.882

  And if this happens to boys/men?

0.862

  PC 11 – Honor killing and maiming

  Injuring a girl/woman in the name of family honor?

0.853

  And if this happens to boys/men?

0.853

SOCIO-ECONOMIC VIOLENCE

 PC2 – Denial of opportunities and services

  Denial of access to education, health assistance or remunerated employment because of the ethnic background of a girl/woman

0.874

  And if this happens to boys/men?

0.874

  Denial of access to education, health assistance or remunerated employment because of the residence status of a girl/woman.

0.846

  And if this happens to boys/men?

0.846

 PC4 – Social exclusion/ostracism

  Being treated differently by other people because of the sexual orientation of a girl/woman?

0.794

  And if this happens to boys/men?

0.806

  Being treated differently by other people because of the ethnic background of a girl/woman?

0.780

  And if this happens to boys/men?

0.780