Fig. 1From: Development and validation of professional competency scale for military nurses: an instrument design studyConfirmatory factor analysis of the PCSMN. The AVE ranged from 0.829 to 0.885 and CR ranged from 0.951 to 0.975, indicating that convergent validity was acceptable (Table 2) [25]. In addition, the square roots of AVE were larger than the correlation values between the common factors, indicating that discriminant validity was acceptable [24]Back to article page