Psychology: Research and Review
Table 3 Standardized regression weights (SRW), reliabilities, and average extracted variance (AEV) for first-order and second-order factor models (N Brazil = 1019; N Portugal = 842)
From: Authentic Leadership Questionnaire: invariance between samples of Brazilian and Portuguese employees
SRW | AEV | Composite reliability | Cronbach’s α | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Factors | Items | Br | Pt | Br | Pt | Br | Pt | Br | Pt | ||||||
Order factor model: | 1st | 2nd | 1st | 2nd | 1st | 2nd | 1st | 2nd | 1st | 2nd | 1st | 2nd | |||
Transparency | AL1 | .601 | .592 | .592 | .589 | .50 | .50 | .37 | .37 | .83 | .83 | .75 | .75 | .84 | .74 |
AL2 | .770 | .776 | .647 | .695 | |||||||||||
AL3 | .814 | .822 | .687 | .651 | |||||||||||
AL4 | .692 | .686 | .535 | .529 | |||||||||||
AL5 | .628 | .614 | .586 | .582 | |||||||||||
Moral/ethics | AL6 | .744 | .743 | .700 | .694 | .63 | .63 | .49 | .49 | .87 | .87 | .79 | .79 | .87 | .79 |
AL7 | .814 | .810 | .775 | .775 | |||||||||||
AL8 | .787 | .785 | .649 | .651 | |||||||||||
AL9 | .821 | .827 | .669 | .673 | |||||||||||
Balanced processing | AL10 | .801 | .805 | .603 | .604 | .67 | .66 | .49 | .49 | .86 | .86 | .74 | .74 | .85 | .73 |
AL11 | .795 | .797 | .716 | .717 | |||||||||||
AL12 | .849 | .842 | .771 | .770 | |||||||||||
Self-awareness | AL13 | .844 | .822 | .703 | .716 | .74 | .74 | .52 | .52 | .92 | .92 | .81 | .81 | .92 | .81 |
AL14 | .822 | .908 | .711 | .787 | |||||||||||
AL15 | .907 | .870 | .787 | .681 | |||||||||||
AL16 | .867 | .841 | .679 | .698 | |||||||||||
AL | Transparency | - | .940 | - | .920 | ||||||||||
(2nd-order factor) | Moral/ethics | - | .910 | - | .886 | ||||||||||
Balanced processing | - | .990 | - | .938 | |||||||||||
Self-awareness | - | .957 | - | .899 | |||||||||||