Table 3.
Discriminant validity: Fornell–Larcker.
| Constructs | ASSU | NR | CON | KAS | FQ | NM | HA | RES | SR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ASSU | 0.781 | ||||||||
| NR | 0.220 | 0.935 | |||||||
| CON | 0.621 | 0.219 | 0.886 | ||||||
| KAS | 0.711 | 0.201 | 0.535 | 0.834 | |||||
| FQ | 0.344 | 0.562 | 0.313 | 0.311 | 0.787 | ||||
| NM | 0.274 | 0.402 | 0.230 | 0.223 | 0.531 | 0.813 | |||
| HA | 0.314 | 0.487 | 0.273 | 0.269 | 0.658 | 0.706 | 0.746 | ||
| RES | 0.601 | 0.201 | 0.635 | 0.548 | 0.293 | 0.226 | 0.260 | 0.877 | |
| SR | 0.174 | 0.468 | 0.189 | 0.131 | 0.560 | 0.401 | 0.522 | 0.143 | 0.860 |
ASSU, assurance of human presence; NR, nurse–physician relationship; CON, positive connectedness; KAS, knowledge and skill; FQ, nursing foundations for quality of care; NM, nursing manager ability, leadership, and support of nurses; HA, nursing participation in hospital affairs; RES, respectful deference to the other; SR, staffing and resource adequacy. The bold numbers in the diagonal are the square root of AVE of each construct, and other numbers are correlations between constructs.