Table 4.

Correlation of latent variables and discriminant Validity of Malay version of the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS-M)

	Positive Symptoms	Mood disturbance	Negative Symptoms	Activation	Resistance	Somatization	Orientation
Positive Symptoms	0.76
Mood disturbance	0.33	0.72
Negative Symptoms	0.31	0.15	0.81
Activation	−0.21	−0.16	−0.23	0.89
Resistance	0.24	0.28	0.21	−0.11	0.83
Somatization	0.08	0.20	0.08	−0.08	0.18	0.85
Orientation	0.12	−0.04	−0.04	−0.02	0.10	−0.04	1.00

Bold number = square root of the average variance extracted (AVE)