Table 8.
Model assessment (moderation).
| Factor Loadings | VIF | Construct reliability and validity | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| α | Composite Reliability | AVE | ||||
| Social Media News Overload | SMO1 | 0.880 | 2.057 | |||
| SMO2 | 0.833 | 1.863 | 0.820 | 0.892 | 0.734 | |
| SMO3 | 0.857 | 1.691 | ||||
| Social Media News Avoidance | NA1 | 0.816 | 1.505 | |||
| NA2 | 0.885 | 1.681 | 0.766 | 0.862 | 0.676 | |
| NA3 | 0.762 | 1.530 | ||||
| Social Media News Filtering | NF1 | 0.922 | 1.920 | 0.818 | 0.917 | 0.846 |
| NF2 | 0.918 | 1.920 | ||||
| Need for News | NFN1 | 0.864 | 2.586 | |||
| NFN2 | 0.910 | 4.106 | 0.920 | 0.944 | 0.807 | |
| NFN3 | 0.897 | 3.092 | ||||
| NFN4 | 0.922 | 4.600 | ||||
| Media Literacy | ML1 | 0.884 | 2.775 | |||
| ML2 | 0.894 | 3.484 | 0.964 | 0.967 | 0.650 | |
| ML3 | 0.868 | 3.054 | ||||
| ML4 | 0.845 | 2.959 | ||||
SMO, Social Media Overload; NA, News Avoidance; NF, News Filtering; NFN, Need for News; ML, Media Literacy; VIF, Variance Inflation Factor; α, Cronbach Alpha; and AVE, Average Variance Extracted.