People’s political views, perceived social norms, and individualism shape their privacy concerns for and acceptance of pandemic control measures that use individual-level georeferenced data

Table 3 Questions and factor loadings for people’s perceived social tightness (n = 4260)

Items	Factor loading ^a
Perceived social tightness
1. There are many social norms that people are supposed to abide by in this country	0.514 *
2. In this country, there are very clear expectations for how people should act in most situations	0.744 *
3. People agree upon what behaviors are appropriate versus inappropriate in most situations in this country	0.668 *
4. People in this country have a great deal of freedom in deciding how they want to behave in most situations. (Reverse coded)	0.326 *
5. In this country, if someone acts in an inappropriate way, others will strongly disapprove	0.432 *
6. People in this country almost always comply with social norms	0.455 *

^aExploratory factor analysis
^*Factor loadings for each scale item indicate onto which subfactor the scale item loaded

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