Table 2 Correlations, average variances extracted, and reliability indicators.

From: Self-objectification and the agency for risk information seeking in women’s cosmetic surgery decision-making

 

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

1. Education

——

           

2. Income

0.259**

——

          

3. Marital status

0.023

0.344**

——

         

4. Peer conversation

0.202**

0.207**

0.057

0.806

        

5. Social-mediated exposure

0.113**

0.129**

0.019

0.635**

0.730

       

6. Parent-daughter conversation

0.191**

0.162**

0.175**

0.425**

0.319**

0.872

      

7. Affective risk response

0.118**

−0.096**

−0.115**

0.087*

0.017

−0.14

0.845

     

8. Anti-surgery subjective norm

0.067

−0.163**

−0.171**

−0.271**

−0.283**

−0.353**

0.308**

0.891

    

9. Self-surveillance

0.149**

0.178**

0.002

0.549**

0.537**

0.238**

0.027

−0.297**

0.770

   

10. Internalization of appearance ideals

0.085*

0.072

0.001

0.327**

0.354**

0.223**

0.037

−0.177**

0.406**

0.783

  

11. Risk information seeking

0.132**

0.191**

0.092*

0.420**

0.393**

0.389**

0.152**

−0.281**

0.351**

0.204**

0.888

 

12. Cosmetic surgery intention

0.063

0.097*

0.110**

0.335**

0.328**

0.217**

−0.078*

−0.419**

0.406**

0.323**

0.316**

0.913

Cronbach’s α

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——

——

0.821

0.826

0.895

0.900

0.913

0.828

0.843

0.866

0.933

CR

——

——

——

0.881

0.872

0.927

0.926

0.939

0.879

0.888

0.918

0.952

AVE

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——

——

0.650

0.532

0.760

0.714

0.794

0.592

0.613

0.788

0.833

  1. The diagonal in bold font is the square root of the AVE (average variance extracted).
  2. *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01.