Negative Rho_A Despite Excellent Cronbach's Alpha

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coupae
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Negative Rho_A Despite Excellent Cronbach's Alpha

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Like the title suggests, now i have negative rho_a value for some reflective constructs when they have excellent (>.8) Cronbach's alpha and Composite Reliability scores.

New to smartpls 3. Anyone can help me understand this? More importantly, what shall i do to move my analysis forward?

pls help. thanks a lot!
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Re: Negative Rho_A Despite Excellent Cronbach's Alpha

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Hmmh, this sounds strange. Do you also get these results with the latest SmartPLS release? https://www.smartpls.com/downloads

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