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Table 2 Factor analyses of leisure activities.

From: Vocation and avocation: leisure activities correlate with professional engagement, but not burnout, in a cross-sectional survey of UK doctors

 

Single factor

Two oblique factors

  

"High Culture"

"Popular culture"

Listen to popular music

0.277

 

0.484

Listen to classical music

0.447

0.537

-0.103

Go to pop concerts/discos

0.392

0.159

0.465

Go to classical music concerts/opera

0.560

0.611

 

Play a musical instrument

0.321

0.401

-0.102

Go to museums or art galleries

0.575

0.543

0.131

Read about art in newspapers, magazines or books

0.525

0.446

0.208

Draw, paint, sculpt or do other arts or crafts

0.376

0.441

 

Photography

0.285

0.198

0.192

Read a novel

0.473

0.445

0.111

Read non-fiction books (not for work or study)

0.464

0.376

0.215

Read poetry

0.517

0.599

 

Write poetry, fiction or other literature (not for work)

0.328

0.334

 

Go to the cinema

0.462

0.280

0.384

Go to the theatre (plays/musicals, etc)

0.607

0.536

0.204

Acting or otherwise taking part in theatre

0.211

0.249

 

Watching classical or modern ballet/dance

0.451

0.518

 

Dance (any form)

0.331

0.324

 

Play sport

0.236

 

0.316

Watch sport

 

-0.251

0.526

Hike/Orienteer/Climb/Mountaineer/Ski etc.

0.268

0.217

0.124

Cook

0.258

0.292

 

Shop (for pleasure)

0.314

0.127

0.374

Spend time on hobbies (excluding above activities)

0.317

0.152

0.334

Watch television

 

-0.361

0.502

Watch DVDs/videos/etc..

0.240

 

0.459

Listen to radio

0.211

 

0.363

Listen to podcasts

0.166

 

0.301

Browse the internet (not for work)

0.109

-0.195

0.556

  1. a) loadings based on extraction of a single factor; and b) extraction of two oblique factors, which are labelled High Culture and Popular Culture. Absolute factor loadings >.4 are shown in bold, and those less than 0.1 are left blank. The oblique factors correlate 0.183.