Table 1 Factor loadings of the dimensions of women’s agency in marital relationships before varimax rotation and the Cronbach’s alpha test
Women’s agency | Factors loadings (Dimensionality) | Cronbach’s alpha coefficients (Consistency) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Attitudes toward domestic violence | Participation in household decision-making | Problems accessing healthcare | ||
Participation in household decision-making | 0.65 | |||
Family visits | 0.1586 | 0.6136 | 0.1564 | |
Own healthcare | 0.1500 | 0.5701 | 0.2019 | |
Household purchases | 0.0980 | 0.3495 | 0.2463 | |
Problems accessing healthcare | 0.70 | |||
Needs permission to go | 0.0799 | −0.2277 | 0.4930 | |
Needs money for treatment | 0.0667 | −0.0601 | 0.3568 | |
Is prohibited by the distance to health facility | 0.0973 | −0.2318 | 0.4412 | |
Is not willing to go alone | 0.0913 | −0.1962 | 0.4984 | |
Attitudes toward domestic violence | 0.83 | |||
If the wife goes out without telling her husband | 0.4440 | −0.0881 | −0.0951 | |
If the wife neglects the children | 0.4536 | −0.0946 | −0.1087 | |
If the wife argues with her husband | 0.4552 | −0.0581 | −0.1306 | |
If the wife refuses sex | 0.4087 | −0.0345 | −0.1354 | |
If the wife burns food | 0.3701 | −0.0859 | −0.0664 | |
Eigen values | 3.1 | 1.7 | 2.2 | |
Variance explained (%) | 25.7 | 18.5 | 14.0 | |