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Table 3 Conditions for establishing reliability and convergent validity

From: The protective role of professional self-concept and job embeddedness on nurses’ burnout: structural equation modeling

Index

Acceptable range

Reliability

Composite Reliability and Cronbach’s alpha are above 0.7

Convergent validity

Factor Loads must be significant (t > 1.96)

Standard factor loads must be greater than 0.4.

CR > AVE

AVE > 0.5

Rho_A > 0.06

Q2 > 0

Divergent validity

AVE > MSV

  1. CR: Composite Reliability, AVE: Average Variance Extracted, VIF: Variance Inflation Factor, MSV: Maximum Shared Squared Variance, Q2 Index (Stone-Geisser Index).
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