TABLE 3.
Variable’s reliabilities and convergent validity.
Variables | Items code | λ | CR | AVE |
Interactivity (INT), (Time-1) | INT1–INT3 | 0.917–0.951 | 0.957 | 0.882 |
Informativeness (INF), (Time-1) | INF1–INF3 | 0.810–0.924 | 0.902 | 0.755 |
Personalisation (PER), (Time-1) | PER1–PER3 | 0.848–0.930 | 0.924 | 0.803 |
Trendiness (TRE), (Time-1) | TRE1–TRE3 | 0.880–0.946 | 0.943 | 0.846 |
Word-of-mouth (WOM), (Time-1) | WOM1–WOM3 | 0.942–0.949 | 0.960 | 0.889 |
Social media information search (SMIS), (Time-1) | SMIS1–SMIS3 | 0.854–0.909 | 0.919 | 0.791 |
Engagement intention (EI), (Time-1) | EI1–EI4 | 0.825–0.885 | 0.923 | 0.750 |
Social media sales intensity (SMSI), (Time-1) | SMSI1–SMSI8 | 0.839–0.930 | 0.954 | 0.777 |
Consumption behaviour (COB), (Time-2) | COB1–COB4 | 0.610–0.851 | 0.830 | 0.553 |
Contribution behaviour (CTB), (Time-2) | CTB1–CTB4 | 0.835–0.913 | 0.922 | 0.748 |
Creation behaviour (CRB), (Time-2) | CRB1–CRB4 | 0.857–0.922 | 0.939 | 0.795 |
All factor loadings are significant at (p < 0.001), N = 396; λ, factor loadings. AVE, average variance extracted; CR, composite reliabilities.