Material energy citizenship through participation in citizen-financed photovoltaic projects

Table 2 Component loadings based on a principal component analysis of the motivational attributes scale (loadings below 0.3 suppressed)

Item	M / SD	Communalities	Component loadings
Item	M / SD	Communalities	Environment	Finance	Local value creation	Symbolism
Protecting the environment	4.0 / 0.94	0.80	0.86
Fighting climate change	4.1 / 0.95	0.89	0.92
Reducing CO² emissions	4.2 / 0.84	0.78	0.85
Controlling where my money flows	3.4 / 1.33	0.57		0.64		0.34
Making a financial gain	2.5 / 1.16	0.79		0.87
Investing my money safely	2.9 / 1.23	0.76		0.85
Financing the implementation of a tangible project	4.6 / 0.75	0.62			0.76
Having an impact together with others	4.3 / 0.86	0.62			0.76
Supporting local actors	4.3 / 0.90	0.71			0.83
Contributing to the sustainable development of my region	4.4 / 0.85	0.53	0.38		0.60
Differentiating myself from others	2.6 / 1.29	0.74				0.84
Showing who I am	2.3 / 1.30	0.78				0.86
Saying something positive about myself	2.8 / 1.36	0.74				0.84

Note: N = 510; extraction method: principal component; varimax rotation; 4 components extracted, explained variance = 72%; Kaiser–Meyer Olkin = 0.80; Bartlett test of sphericity: p < 0.001, Cronbach's α = 0.82

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