TABLE 1.

Reliability and convergent validity of latent variables (N = 1,384).

Latent variable	Number of items	Cronbach’s α	CR	AVE
Mental health	14	0.85	0.86	0.55
Exercise self-efficacy	10	0.85	0.86	0.54
Sport confidence	8	0.79	0.82	0.59
Sport participation attitudes	6	0.93	0.93	0.69

Cut-off criteria, Cronbach’s α > 0.7, CR > 0.7, AVE > 0.5.