Convergent validity is concerned with the
similarity, or convergence, between individual
questionnaire items that are measuring the
same construct. For this study, convergent
validity was assessed from the measurement
model by testing whether each individual
item’s coefficient was significant, that is,
greater than twice its standard error (Lemak
et al., 1997). As can be seen from Table 2, the
coefficients for all items are far greater than
twice their standard errors. In addition, all
coefficients are large and strongly significant.
These results provide satisfactory evidence of
convergent validity for these sets of items.