Use Formative for (traditionally treated as) Reflective
Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2016 10:09 am
Hello,
I just wondering why some people tried to re-examine the construct form (formative - reflective).
What is the justification to use formative model of a construct that traditionally has been treated as reflective?
For example, relationship quality that consists of trust, commitment, satisfaction. In traditional way, or in CB-SEM, directions are from the construct pointing to dimensions. But in one or two research, I saw that they used the same construct and dimensions, but in formative. Beside of its statistical proof (no multicollinearity, etc), what kind of theoretical justification can be addressed in our research to start evaluating or questioning form of the construct?
Thank you!
I just wondering why some people tried to re-examine the construct form (formative - reflective).
What is the justification to use formative model of a construct that traditionally has been treated as reflective?
For example, relationship quality that consists of trust, commitment, satisfaction. In traditional way, or in CB-SEM, directions are from the construct pointing to dimensions. But in one or two research, I saw that they used the same construct and dimensions, but in formative. Beside of its statistical proof (no multicollinearity, etc), what kind of theoretical justification can be addressed in our research to start evaluating or questioning form of the construct?
Thank you!