Table 3.

Examining construct validity: correlations between factors and external variables

Factors	Positive experience	Negative experience	Info‐seeking variety	ρ
First‐order factors
Track	0.42***	0.04	0.63***	0.87
Consult	0.32***	0.07**	0.58***	0.91
Share	0.22***	0.13***	0.32***	0.92
Post	0.15***	0.13***	0.25***	0.96
Second‐order factors
Acquisition	0.43***	0.05*	0.67***	0.73
Transmission	0.23***	0.14***	0.33***	0.93

N = 402. *P < 0.05, **P < 0.01, ***P < 0.001.

Cell numbers are correlation coefficients except for the last column which contains scale reliability coefficients for each factor.

Raykov's scale reliability is calculated using Equation 8.2 in Brown.22

$\mathrm{\rho }={(\mathit{\sigma }{\mathrm{\lambda }}_i)}^2/[{(\mathit{\sigma }{\mathrm{\lambda }}_i)}^2+\mathit{\sigma }{\mathrm{\theta }}_{ii}],$

where (Σλ₁)² is the squared sum of unstandardized factor loadings, and Σθ_ii is the sum of unstandardized measurement error variances.