Table 3

Robustness measures for the use of principal component analysis to construct the variable scores

VariableFLCAAVEχ2
OPTI0.699–0.8010.7400.569383
SCEP0.680–0.7350.7500.502456
INNOV0.685–0.8600.6750.612242
INSEC0.593–0.7920.7670.525538
ECU0.710–0.8160.7470.578436
RISK0.598–0.8310.7220.538354
NREG0.682–0.8720.8360.614881

Note(s): FL = factor loadings; CA = Cronbach's alpha; AVE = average variance extracted; χ2 = chi-square statistic of Bartlett's test. In all cases, Bartlett's test rejects the null hypothesis that the correlation matrix is an identity matrix

Source(s): Author’s own work

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