Correlates of walking and cycling for transport and recreation: factor structure, reliability and behavioural associations of the perceptions of the environment in the neighbourhood scale (PENS)

Table 3 Fully standardised item loadings from CFA analyses of environmental perception items models ^a

		First-order (pooled sample^b)	General-specific (pooled sample^b)
			Specific factors	General factor
STANDARDISED LOADINGS
Factors	Items^†
Traffic safety	Walking safe from traffic	0.81	0.67	0.50
	Cycling safe from traffic	0.70	0.59	0.43
	Safe to cross roads	0.71	0.47	0.48
Supportive infrastructure	Convenient walk/cycle routes	0.58	0.29	0.52
	Cycle routes	0.48	0.52	0.39
	Variety of walk/cycle routes	0.69	0.25	0.64
	Pleasant to walk/cycle	0.82	0.10	0.79
Local amenities	Places to walk/cycle to	0.74	0.52	0.57
	Open spaces	0.71	0.55	0.54
	Pavements for walking	0.76	0.32	0.63
Social order	Area safe from crime	0.79	0.31	0.49
	Free from litter	0.38	0.58	0.25
CORRELATION OF SUBSCALES		Traf with Soc: 0.53	[all correlations automatically set at zero in general-specific models]
		Traf with Infr: 0.58
		Traf with Am: 0.48
		Soc with Infr: 0.52
		Soc with Am: 0.46
		Infr with Am: 0.75

^aFitting models shown in Figure 1; ^bn = 1754, ‘test’ half of the core baseline sample; Traf = Traffic safety score, Soc = Social order score, Infr = Supportive infrastructure score, Am = Local amenities score.

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