Table 2 Knowledge items (restricted item pool, excludes ‘shame’ and ‘laugh’)
Item | Factor Loading — Factor 1 Aboriginal culture | Factor Loading — Factor 2 racial identity | Item variance explained by factors one and two |
|---|---|---|---|
Q1. How much do you know about how Aboriginal people lived in the old days? | 0.544 | 0.253 | |
Q3. How much do you know about Aboriginal Week activities? | 0.398 | 0.169 | |
Q5. How much do you like playing with Aboriginal kids? | 0.652 | 0.447 | |
Q7. How much have you learned to make Aboriginal foods like damper? | 0.739 | 0.415 | |
Q9. How much do you like being Aboriginal? | 0.746 | 0.464 | |
Q11. How much are you the same as other Aboriginal kids? | 0.374 | 0.234 | |
Q13. How much do you know about Aboriginal stories of the Dreaming (Dreamtime)? | 0.547 | 0.340 | |
Q15. How much do Aboriginal kids make you feel part of their group at school? | 0.393 | 0.340 | |
Q17. How much do you talk Aboriginal words? | 0.594 | 0.375 | |
Q19. How much does your family tell you about being Aboriginal? | 0.604 | 0.431 | |
Q23. How much do you like Aboriginal people as friends? | 0.479 | 0.330 | |
Q28. How much are you proud of being Aboriginal? | 0.93 | 0.737 | |
Q30. How much do Aboriginal kids help each other? | 0.339 | 0.315 | |
Q33. How much do you like the Aboriginal flag? | 0.636 | 0.393 | |
Q35. How much do you go bush with your family? | 0.540 | 0.332 | |
Q37. How much have you eaten Aboriginal foods, like kangaroo? | 0.546 | 0.446 | |
Q39. How much do you know about the dances Aboriginal people did in the old days? | 0.700 | 0.554 | |
Total variance explained (%) | 32.3 % | 6.3 % | |
Cronbach’s alpha | 0.835 | 0.800 | |
Correlation between factors 1& 2 (knowledge): 0.628 |