Table 2 Convergent validity.

From: Why people share misinformation on social media? An integration of affordance and flow theories

Constructs

Items

Mean

Standard deviation

Item loading

CR

Cronbach’s alpha

AVE

Information accessibility (IA)

IA1

5.43

1.20

0.86

0.89

0.82

0.73

IA2

5.19

1.25

0.84

 

IA3

5.31

1.23

0.86

 

Metavoicing (MV)

MV1

5.66

1.05

0.79

0.85

0.76

0.58

MV2

5.58

1.12

0.78

 

MV3

5.69

1.04

0.74

 

MV4

5.66

1.10

0.73

 

Association (ASS)

ASS1

5.39

1.18

0.82

0.86

0.76

0.67

ASS2

5.55

1.10

0.81

 

ASS3

5.38

1.17

0.83

 

Cognitive involvement (CI)

CI1

5.78

1.10

0.73

0.82

0.70

0.53

CI2

5.78

1.00

0.75

 

CI3

5.89

1.01

0.76

 

CI4

6.03

0.96

0.66

 

Affective involvement (AI)

AI1

6.04

0.94

0.82

0.82

0.66

0.60

AI2

5.93

0.99

0.76

 

AI3

5.87

0.92

0.74

 

Misinformation sharing (MS)

MS1

5.78

0.95

0.81

0.83

0.70

0.63

MS2

5.70

1.07

0.79

 

MS3

5.52

1.06

0.78

 

Cognitive ability (CA)

CA1

5.28

1.16

0.84

0.84

0.71

0.63

CA2

5.12

1.29

0.78

 

CA3

5.16

1.29

0.77

 

Emotional ability (EA)

EA1

5.48

1.15

0.87

0.90

0.83

0.75

EA2

5.03

1.38

0.83

 

EA3

5.22

1.32

0.89