Influence of Childhood Adversity on Students’ Delinquent Activities: Interplay with Neighborhood Context and Delinquent Peer Association

Table 4

Construct reliability and convergent validity.

Constructs	Items	Convergent validity		Construct reliability
		Loadings	AVE	Cronbach’s alpha	CR
ACEs	ACE score	1	1	1	1
Family deprivation	Family deprivation (FD)	1	1	1	1
Neighborhood disorganization	Crimes in neighborhood (ND1)	0.843	0.692	0.779	0.871
	Drug dealing in neighborhood (ND2)	0.806
	Fighting in neighborhood (ND3)	0.846
Neighborhood social capital	Help (SC1)	0.776	0.588	0.77	0.851
	Cohesion (SC2)	0.747
	Trust (SC3)	0.807
	Friendliness (SC4)	0.736
Delinquent peer association	Peer underage act (PUA) score	0.854	0.638	0.857	0.898
	Peer substance abuse (PSA) score	0.793
	Peer violent delinquency (PVD) score	0.847
	Peer property delinquency (PPD) score	0.745
	Peer punishment (PP) score	0.75
Delinquency	Underage act score	0.866	0.672	0.837	0.891
	Substance abuse score	0.795
	Violent delinquency score	0.854
	Property delinquency score	0.76