5.2. The structural models and hypothesis testing
Testing of the research hypotheses involved examination of four structural modlels assessing the restive causal paths as shown in Table 3.
The results indicate that all four models achieve acceptable fit. The modle diagnostics are shown in Table 4.
The Q-plot for the models was approximately linear with a slope near I suggesting the absence of major model misspecifications (Bagozzi and Yi, 1998; Bentler, 1990; Joreskog and Sorbom, estimated structural co-efficients. The results are shown in Table 5.