Cross-Cultural Adaptation and Psychometric Evaluation of the Chinese Version of the Authentic Nurse Leadership Questionnaire

Table 5

Discriminant validity (n = 255).

	SA	MEC	RI	SDM	Caring
SA	0.751
MEC	0.600	0.780
RI	0.567	0.600	0.777
SDM	0.614	0.570	0.604	0.749
Caring	0.641	0.616	0.513	0.478	0.750
AVE	0.564	0.608	0.604	0.560	0.563

; AVE, average variance extracted; SA: self-awareness; MEC: moral ethical courage; RI: relational integrality; SDM: shared decisionmaking. Bold values show the AVE square root in each of the five dimensions.