Table 2.

Validity: Correlation coefficients between latent variables and square root of AVE.

	Sociocultural adaptation	Psychological adaptation	Academic adaptation	Maintenance of Chinese culture	Acceptance of American culture
Sociocultural adaptation	0.67(0.45)
Psychological adaptation	0.45***	0.62(0.38)
Academic adaptation	0.30***	0.28**	0.60(0.36)
Maintenance of Chinese culture	−0.27***	−0.21*	−0.31***	0.58(0.34)
Acceptance of American culture	0.31***	0.27***	0.53***	−0.37***	0.56(0.31)

^*p < 0.05,

^**p < 0.01,

^***p < 0.001.

The values on the diagonal were square root values of AVE (AVE was in parentheses) for five scales. And the values in the cells of lower left triangle were the correlation coefficients between latent variables.