Skip to main content
. 2021 Oct 19;20:203. doi: 10.1186/s12912-021-00727-8

Table 3.

Conditions for establishing reliability and convergent validity

Index Acceptable range
Reliability Composite Reliability and Cronbach’s alpha are above 0.7
Convergent validity Factor Loads must be significant (t > 1.96)
Standard factor loads must be greater than 0.4.
CR > AVE
AVE > 0.5
Rho_A > 0.06
Q2 > 0
Divergent validity AVE > MSV

CR: Composite Reliability, AVE: Average Variance Extracted, VIF: Variance Inflation Factor, MSV: Maximum Shared Squared Variance, Q2 Index (Stone-Geisser Index).