Table II

Reliability and validity of measures

Panel A: loading of indicators on the first-order constructs
    LoadingCRAVE 
Second-order constructFirst-order constructIndicators 201420162014201620142016 
Self-TranscendenceUniversalism(1) Important that people are treated equally and have equal opportunities 0.800.800.800.800.670.66 
  (2) Important to understand different people 0.830.83     
  (3) Important to care for nature and the environmenta 0.610.61     
 Benevolence(4) Important to be loyal to friends and devoted to people 0.830.850.830.850.710.73 
  (5) Important to help people and care for others’ well-being 0.860.86     
ConservatismTradition(6) Important to be humble and modest, and not to draw attention to oneself 0.710.700.740.740.580.59 
  (7) Important to follow traditions and customs 0.810.83     
 Conformity(8) Important to do what is told and follow rules 0.800.830.820.830.690.71 
  (9) Important to behave properly 0.860.86     
 SecurityImportant to live in secure and safe surroundings 0.850.840.830.820.710.70 
  (10) Important that government is strong and ensures safety 0.830.84     
Human capital expectancy(11) Migrants Should have good educational qualifications 0.86na0.89na0.80na 
 (12) Migrants Should have work skills that the host country needs 0.93na     
Acculturation expectancy(13) Be able to speak country’s official language(s) 0.84na0.81na0.68na 
 (14) Be committed to the way of life in the host country 0.82na     
Attitude towards migrants(15) Immigration bad or good for a country’s economy? 0.840.870.900.920.760.79 
 (16) The country’s cultural life undermined or enriched by immigrants? 0.880.90     
 (17) Immigrants make the country a worse or a better place to live in? 0.880.89     
Panel B: loading of the first-order constructs on the second-order value constructs
   LoadingCRAVEMSV
Second-order constructFirst-order construct 20142016201420162014201620142016
Self-TranscendenceUniversalism 0.960.970.730.830.730.710.200.17
 Benevolence 0.730.70      
ConservatismTradition 0.760.780.600.820.600.610.120.12
 Conformity 0.780.78      
 Security 0.800.78      

Notes: CR, composite reliability; AVE, average variance extracted; na, not available scores due to lack of data in ESS round 8, 2016. aItem was deleted due to a low loading on the latent construct (<0.70)

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