Table 2 Results regarding the discriminant validity of the CFA model presented in Fig. 2. The diagonal cells of this table represent the AVE values for each latent factor, while the values in the two lower rows (Func and QoL) show the square of the values of the correlation coefficients between factors.

From: A nursing care-sensitive patient satisfaction measure in older patients

 

SC-ADL(1)

SC-ADL(2)

MF

COM

SR(a)

Phys

Psych

SR(b)

Env

Func

QoL

SC-ADL(1)

0.82

SC-ADL(2)

0.88

MF

0.72

COM

0.92

SR(a)

0.39

Phys

0.60

Psych

0.61

SR(b)

0.39

Env

0.37

Func

0.80

0.82

0.66

0.66

0.56

0.70

QoL

0.91

0.74

0.77

0.75

0.63

0.79

  1. Cells filled with bold represent situations in which the expression \(\left({AVE}_{i} \bigwedge { AVE}_{j}\right)\ge {\phi }_{ij}^{2}\) returned the logical value TRUE, while the italics ones indicate those that returned the logical value FALSE.