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Table 4 Factor loadings from principal component analysis on seventeen motivations for gathering wild plants (n = 353)

From: Explaining the resurgent popularity of the wild: motivations for wild plant gathering in the Biosphere Reserve Grosses Walsertal, Austria

Motivations for (not) gathering wild plants

Factor loadings

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5

(10) Fun

,778

    

(13) Kids

,700

    

(12) Enjoying Plants

,641

    

(6) Reasonable activity

,635

  

,400

 

(1) Nature

,607

    

(9) Common activity

 

,812

   

(11) Old custom

 

,776

   

(8) Meeting friends

 

,630

   

(3) Parents

 

,508

   

(17) Work

  

,767

  

(16) Lack of knowledge

  

,720

  

(15) Buy

  

,661

  

(14) No time

  

,534

 

,436

(4) Better than bought

   

,771

 

(7) Higher value than bought

   

,705

 

(5) For free

   

,639

 

(2) Earning money

    

,906