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. 2019 Mar 18;11(3):653. doi: 10.3390/nu11030653

Table 6.

Factor analysis on motives for coffee purchasing and convergent validity and discriminant validity for each construct.

Price Sustainability Aroma
Price 0.902
Value for money 0.859
Promotion 0.842
Cronbach’s alpha 0.836
 Coffee recipe 0.663
 Coffee roast 0.775
 Brand knowledge 0.641
 Intensity and taste information 0.752
Cronbach’s alpha 0.675
 Country of origin 0.735
 Fair-trade 0.910
 Organic 0.848
Cronbach’s alpha 0.790
 Variance explained (%) 24.21 22.02 20.11
 Mean value of factors 3.3 1.8 3.2
Convergent validity and discriminant validity
Price Sustainability Aroma
Price 0.517
Sustainability 0.069 0.696
Aroma 0.017 0.101 0.504
Composite Reliability 0.94 0.88 0.81

Note: Diagonal data (in italics) represent Fornell and Larcker’s average variance extracted (AVE). Subdiagonal represent the inter-construct correlations.