Factor Loadings: Opioid Sample | Factor Loadings: Methamphetamine Sample | |
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Factor 1: Biological Essentialism | ||
A person being an addict can largely be attributed to their genetic inheritance. | 1.00 | 1.00 |
With enough scientific knowledge, the basic qualities of addicts can be traced back to, and explained by, their biological make-up. | 1.03 | 0.71 |
Whether someone is an addict or not can be determined by their biological make-up. | 0.95 | 0.97 |
With enough scientific knowledge, addiction can be traced back to genetic causes. | 0.85 | 1.24 |
Factor 2: Non-Biological Essentialism | ||
The boundaries that define the differences between addicts and non-addicts are clear-cut. | 1.06 | 0.98 |
A person either has addictive tendencies, or they do not. | 0.70 | 0.52 |
There are different types of people (i.e., addicts or non-addicts) and those types can be easily defined and are relatively clear-cut. | 1.11 | 1.06 |
The kind of person someone is, is clearly defined, they either are an addict or they are not. | 1.08 | 1.28 |
People fall into distinct personality ‘types’. | 0.850 | 0.70 |
Generally speaking, once you know someone in one or two contexts, it is possible to predict how they will behave in most other contexts. | 0.98 | 0.94 |
It is possible to know about many aspects of a person once you learn they are an addict. | 0.79 | 0.98 |
When getting to know a person, it is possible to determine if they are an addict or not very quickly. | 1.00 | 1.00 |
Knowing that someone is an addict can lead to accurate predictions of their future behaviour. | 0.66 | 0.66 |
Everyone is either an addict or not. | 0.78 | 1.01 |
Although addicts may have some basic identifiable traits, it is never easy to make accurate judgments about how they will behave in different situations (R). | 0.22 | 0.90 |