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. 2014 Feb 12;9(2):e88504. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0088504

Table 4. Construct reliability, convergent validity and discriminant validity.

AVE Composite Reliability Cronbach's Alpha Attitude toward the Behavior Intentions Perceived Behavioral Control Perceived Social Norms
0.744 0.921 0.885 Attitude toward the Behavior 0.862
0.745 0.936 0.913 Intentions 0.485 0.863
0.756 0.925 0.893 Perceived Behavioral Control 0.287 0.511 0.870
0.616 0.906 0.877 Perceived Social Norms 0.399 0.440 0.461 0.785

Diagonal elements (bold) are the square root of variance shared between the constructs and their measures (AVE).

Off-diagonal elements are the correlations among constructs.

For discriminant validity, the diagonal elements should be larger than the off-diagonal elements.