TABLE 4.

Construct reliability and validity.

	Cronbach’s alpha	rho_A	Composite reliability	Average variance extracted (AVE)	R 2	Q 2
Self-affirmation	0.857	0.859	0.898	0.637	–	–
Cognitive empathy	0.849	0.849	0.886	0.526	0.521	0.186
Affective empathy	0.811	0.814	0.864	0.515	0.572	0.279
Affective bias	0.795	0.795	0.859	0.549	0.531	0.235
Cognitive bias	0.744	0.743	0.839	0.566	0.698	0.285