The observed cross-loadings
of individual items as well as items that belonged to other
domains than in the conceptual model may reflect that female victims often are not exposed to one form
of violence in isolation
of the other.32 For example, the
sexual violence item «Forced me to have sex against my will by using his / her physical strength (by hitting, holding me firmly or threatening me with a weapon),» which loaded in both the physical and
sexual IPV components, is hard to divide into one or the other category.