Reflective-Formative Validity

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cbakhan
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Reflective-Formative Validity

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I have developed reflective-formative construct. I have to check its validity. Initially, at first order, all the weights, factor loadings, AVE are appropriate. When I calculate the second-order by using the latent score and place the latent constructs on second-order formative. They come out to be insignificant. However, the factor loadings are significant for all the latent constructs of second order. Should I retain the insignificant latent second-order constructs? (Hair et al, 2016) suggests retaining the insignificant indicators. Any help will be appreciated.
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Re: Reflective-Formative Validity

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Please take a look at this article which explains how to specify, estimate, and validate higher-order constructs in PLS-SEM: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/a ... 8219301223
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