Hello everyone,
I’m writing my master thesis at the moment and I have trouble to assess if discriminant validity is established or not.
All criteria do confirm that discriminant validity is established, with the exception of two cases:
Looking at the HTMT values, the PLS algorithm reports values for
Satisfaction confirmation is 0.898
Perception confirmation is 0.904
Looking at the HTMT confidence intervals, the values are below the value of 1
Satisfaction confirmation is 0.953
Perception confirmation is 0.956
All other HTMT values and confidence intervals for all other constructs meet the criteria to confirm discriminant validity.
Thus, can I report that discriminant validity is established looking at those two problematic cases?
Thank you in advance for your help and answers!
Kind regards,
Maren
discriminant validity - HTMT criterion
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Re: discriminant validity - HTMT criterion
Given that a more recent study even suggest that the confidence interval should not include the 0.9 or 0.85 values it seems that you have discriminant validity problems.
Franke, G. and Sarstedt, M. (2018). Heuristics versus statistics in discriminant validity testing: A comparison of four procedures, Internet Research, forthcoming.
Franke, G. and Sarstedt, M. (2018). Heuristics versus statistics in discriminant validity testing: A comparison of four procedures, Internet Research, forthcoming.
Dr. Jan-Michael Becker, BI Norwegian Business School, SmartPLS Developer
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Re: discriminant validity - HTMT criterion
Thank you very much, I appreciate your answer!
Kind regards
Maren
Kind regards
Maren