Table 3 Reliability and validity.

From: Choosing a better communication style: revealing the relationship between communication style and knowledge hiding behaviour

Variables

Items

CITC

Cronbach’s α after deleting the item

Cronbach’s α

AVE

Factor loadings

Cooperative communication (CoopC)

CoopC1

0.681

0.775

0.823

0.539

0.811

CoopC2

0.637

0.785

0.769

CoopC3

0.680

0.775

0.812

CoopC4

0.498

0.820

0.591

CoopC5

0.502

0.819

0.609

CoopC6

0.647

0.783

0.778

Competitive communication (CompC)

CompC1

0.532

0.839

0.842

0.615

0.687

CompC2

0.691

0.799

0.819

CompC3

0.683

0.800

0.812

CompC4

0.654

0.810

0.787

CompC5

0.684

0.800

0.809

Online communication (OC)

OC1

0.726

0.720

0.827

0.744

0.887

OC2

0.690

0.755

0.867

OC3

0.638

0.807

0.833

Knowledge hiding (KH)

KH1

0.694

0.870

0.887

0.644

0.795

KH2

0.687

0.871

0.788

KH3

0.709

0.867

0.805

KH4

0.775

0.857

0.857

KH5

0.645

0.877

0.753

KH6

0.719

0.865

0.812

  1. CITC Corrected Item-Total Correlation.
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