A cross-cultural adaptation and validation of a scale to assess illness identity in adults living with a chronic illness in South Africa: a case of HIV

Table 5 Convergent and discriminant validity of the final 20-item model

N	Subscale	Number of items	M	SD	Alpha (α)	CR	AVE	MSV	MaxR(H)	1	2	3	4
1	Rejection	3	9.14	2.56	0.7	0.73	0.49	0.1	0.85	0.7
2	Acceptance	3	12.49	1.55	0.83	0.85	0.66	0.28	0.98	− 0.31*	0.81
3	Enrichment	7	29.02	3.63	0.89	0.89	0.53	0.28	0.9	− 0.13	0.53**	0.73
4	Engulfment	7	15.38	4.72	0.88	0.87	0.49	0.06	0.91	0.25^†	− 0.19	− 0.13	0.7

Numbers in italics on the diagonal are the square root of the AVE values (discriminant values) and numbers in bold are the correlations among the latent factors
M mean, SD standard deviation, CR composite reliability, AVE average variance extracted, MSV maximum shared variance
Significance of correlations: ^†p < 0.100, *p < 0.050, **p < 0.010, ***p < 0.001

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