Table 3.

Assessment of the results of the measurement models: internal consistency (Cronbach's α and Dillon–Goldstein's ρ), convergent validity (loadings and average variance extracted [AVE]) and discriminant validity (cross loadings)

Constructs	Internal consistency		Indicators	Outer loadings and cross loadings				AVE
	Α	ρ		CHILD	PTSD	DEP	SUIC
Childhood adversity (CHILD)	0.82	0.89	separation	0.63 1	0.17	−0.11	0.00	0.73
			placement	0.98	0.27	0.07	0.28
			judge for juveniles	0.92	0.07	0.01	0.26
Depression (DEP)	0.88	0.94	depressed mood	−0.01	−0.06	0.93	0.44	0.89
			anhedonia	0.06	0.18	0.96	0.57
Suicidality (SUIC)	0.90	0.93	death wish	0.14	0.10	0.48	0.85	0.77
			pain wish	0.26	0.18	0.44	0.87
			suicidal thoughts	0.30	0.18	0.58	0.92
			suicidal plan	0.19	0.14	0.34	0.88

*This indicator did not satisfy discriminant validity (loadings <0.7), but was retained as AVE was well above 0.5.