How newly diagnosed HIV-positive men who have sex with men look at HIV/AIDS – validation of the Chinese version of the revised illness perception questionnaire

Table 2 Exploratory factor analysis of items from the causal attribution dimension among newly diagnosed HIV-positive MSM

	Factor 1	Factor 2	Factor 3
God’s punishment	0.90	0.07	0.08
God’s will	0.89	0.10	0.20
Carelessness	−0.08	0.75	0.13
Did not understand the risk	0.23	0.61	−0.07
Believed it could not happen to self	0.39	0.55	−0.11
Being deceived	−0.09	0.49	0.46
Alcohol/drug use	0.07	−0.26	0.74
Chance/bad luck	0.23	0.24	0.65
Cronbach’s Alpha	0.86	0.49	0.29
Initial Eigen values	2.33	1.29	1.12
Cumulative % of variance explained	29.18	45.34	59.27
Item-total correlation coefficients	0.77	0.21-0.34	0.18

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