Research Article
Stakeholders’ Attitude to Genetically Modified Foods and Medicine
Table 2
Measurement scales, reliability, and validity.
| Factor and items | Corrected item-total correlation | | Standardized factor loading | Composite reliability | Average variance extracted (AVE) |
| Familiarity | | | | | | Easy to know | 0.595 | 0.772 | 0.706 | 0.775 | 0.536 | Easy judgement | 0.653 | | 0.812 | | | Effect known | 0.571 | | 0.671 | | | Perceived benefit | | | | | | Benefit to Malaysian society | 0.718 | 0.868 | 0.784 | 0.871 | 0.578 | Enhance product quality | 0.746 | | 0.839 | | | Enhance quality of life | 0.772 | | 0.864 | | | Enhance Malaysian economy | 0.668 | | 0.691 | | | Benefits exceed risks | 0.563 | | 0.588 | | | Perceived risk | | | | | | Feeling of anxiety | 0.767 | 0.880 | 0.855 | 0.882 | 0.603 | Harm to health | 0.814 | | 0.903 | | | Long-term effect | 0.709 | | 0.744 | | | Catastrophic potential | 0.695 | | 0.717 | | | Overall risk magnitude | 0.695 | | 0.633 | | | Risk acceptance | | | | | | Accept if it can boost Malaysian economy | 0.681 | 0.797 | 0.780 | 0.797 | 0.568 | Social acceptance | 0.625 | | 0.695 | | | Comparison with other risk | 0.624 | | 0.782 | | | Moral concerns | | | | | | Threaten natural order of things | 0.568 | 0.810 | 0.633 | 0.818 | 0.603 | “Play god” | 0.717 | | 0.844 | | | Commodity of life | 0.705 | | 0.834 | | | Encouragement | | | | | | More rigorous R&D | 0.668 | 0.883 | 0.715 | 0.884 | 0.658 | Should be commercialized | 0.764 | | 0.840 | | | Should be given monetary support by government | 0.801 | | 0.853 | | | Overall encouragement | 0.748 | | 0.828 | | |
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