Table 3

Initial three-factor loading from 30-item Composite Abuse Scale

	Factors and loadings
Item	Psychological	Physical	Sexual
Told me I that I was crazy	0.955	−0.074	−0.068
Told me that I was stupid	0.914	0.051	−0.099
Told me that I wasn't good enough	0.914	−0.038	−0.054
Told me that no one would ever want me	0.826	0.098	−0.030
Harassed me over the phone	0.823	−0.014	0.048
Tried to convince my friends, family or children that I was crazy	0.809	−0.024	0.093
Blamed me for causing their violent behaviour	0.789	0.132	−0.031
Did not want me to socialise with my female friends	0.789	−0.026	0.089
Tried to turn my family, friends and children against me	0.779	−0.015	0.110
Tried to keep me from seeing or talking to my family	0.702	0.068	0.105
Became upset if dinner/housework wasn't done when they thought it should be	0.649	−0.005	0.088
Told me that I was ugly	0.631	0.219	−0.014
Followed me	0.609	0.106	0.116
Harassed me at work	0.546	0.042	0.154
Hung around outside my house	0.495	0.219	−0.014
Kicked me, bit me or hit me with a fist	−0.046	0.928	0.021
Beat me up	−0.049	0.920	−0.011
Threw me	0.140	0.830	−0.070
Slapped me	0.107	0.824	−0.035
Hit or tried to hit me with something	0.189	0.746	−0.016
Shook me	0.176	0.722	−0.034
Used a knife or gun or other weapon	−0.157	0.671	0.196
Pushed, grabbed or shoved me	0.327	0.628	−0.029
Locked me in the bedroom	0.086	0.459	0.246
Took my wallet and left me stranded	0.276	0.416	0.161
Forced me to have sex	0.014	0.058	0.851
Tried to force me to have sex	0.148	0.024	0.824
Made me perform sex acts that I did not enjoy or like	0.077	−0.012	0.779
Refused to let me work outside the home	0.227	0.238	0.275
Kept me from medical care	0.243	0.258	0.239

Bold text denotes factors loadings that are above 0.40.