Internal Consistency Factor Loading (item reliabilities) ?

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HussainWaasly
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Internal Consistency Factor Loading (item reliabilities) ?

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Hi All.
I have ongoing research and it is about to finish. I am doing data analysis now and i want to get Internal Consistency Factor Loading Analysis to check item reliabilities.
i have collected data from (Report->PLS->calculation result->outer loading) to get Internal Consistency Factor for each element (composite reliability value).
and from (Report->PLS->calculation result->Outer weight) to get the weight for each elements.

Kindly, confirm me if i am on the right track or no!
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Hi Hussain,

The short answer = yes.

The long answer =

If you are using reflective indicators:

1) Convergent validity:
Outer loading = PLS / Calculation results / Outer loadings
AVE = PLS / Quality criteria / Overview

2) Discriminant validity:
Item level --> Crossloading = PLS / Quality criteria / crossloading
Construct level --> (square root of AVE > LV correlations) -->
- compute square root by hand using the AVE from Overview
- put these values in the diagonal of LV correlations matrix

3) Reliability:
Composite reliability and alpha’s Cronbach --> PLS / Quality criteria / Overview

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Post by HussainWaasly »

Thanks a lot for the usual support!

to test "Research Hypotheses" i need to check path coefficient t-values (bootstrapping/path coefficient (Mean,STDEV,t-values)) if it is more than 1.96 then i assume that the path coefficient significantly different from 0 at a significance level of 5 percent (alpha = 0.05; two-sided test) .
and Research Hypotheses supported!
Don't I?

what about R2 and how can i get R2 for the full model?

I am trying to do the assessment of the structural model. I know that R2 should be more than 2 but it is for what?

there are two more steps :
Report / PLS / Calculation results / Path coefficients
- The same results that were showed in the model
but what does it mean?
Report / PLS / Quality criteria / Total effects
- you could assess the direct, indirect, and total effects.
also but what does it mean?

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Hi Hussain,

1) Yes, t > 1.96, path is significant, hypothesis supported.

2) Each endogenous LV has a R²
Endogenous are LV that received structural arrows.

You could think in regression terms.
Y = b1*x1 + b2*x2 + b3*x3
Here, we will have a R² for Y regression.


3) Yes path coefficients from report = model (image)

4) Direct, indirect and total effects should be assessed if your model has indirect effects.
Example:

a) X1 –>0.4--> X2 -->0.3  X3

b) X1 --> 0.2  X3

From (a): X1 has a indirect effect on X3 = 0.4 * 0.3 = 0.12
From (b): X1 has a direct effect on X3 = 0.2
Indirect + direct = total effect = 0.32

SmartPLS shows direct effect in the model and report as path coefficients, and total effect in the report, if you want to compute indirect effect, just subtract one of other.

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Post by HussainWaasly »

Thanks again Prof.
small questions to make sure every thing in place.

if R2 > 2 or R2<2 , what does it mean?
and to get R2 for full model, i have to calculate all R2 for all LV to get R2 for the full model. please advise ?


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Hi,

R^2 for variance explain each endogenous construct. We recommended to report Adjusted R^2. According to some literature, R^2 > 0.25 is good. If you interest to know R^2 model, you must compute terms ARS (Average R^2): Sum all result R^2 in model/number of endogenous variables.

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