Biopsychosocial Correlates of Adjustment to Cancer during Chemotherapy: The Key Role of Health-Related Quality of Life
Table 2
Reliability and validity of the latent variables.
Latent Variable
AVE
CR
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
1. Anxious Preoccupation (AP)
.85
.92
.92
2. Avoidance (AV)
.76
.90
.43
.87
3. Fatalism (FA)
.88
.94
.09
.24
.93
4. Fighting Spirit (FS)
.65
.79
.03
.22
.35
.81
5. Helplessness-Hopelessness (HH)
.80
.92
.56
.16
.00
-.14
.89
6. Mental Health (MH)
.57
.80
-.49
-.24
-.06
.09
-.48
.75
7. Physical Health (PH)
.55
.88
-.27
-.03
.04
.04
-.28
.63
.74
8. Positive Thinking Coping (PTC)
.49
.85
-.32
-.05
.16
.33
-.39
.30
.16
.70
9. Social Provision (SP)
.59
.88
-.14
.07
.28
.37
-.19
.21
.14
.35
.77
Note: p<.001; p<.01; p< .05. Bold coefficients in the diagonal are the squared roots of AVE. Coefficients below the diagonal are correlations among the latent variables in the model. Legend: AVE = Average Variance Extracted; CR = composite reliability.