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Table 4 Reliability and convergent validity of the measures

From: Knowledge sharing among medical teachers: the interplay between personality and the theory of planned behavior

Constructs	Convergent validity		Internal consistency
Constructs	Factor loading (≥ 0.7)	AVE (≥ 0.5)	Composite reliability (≥ 0.7)	Cronbach’s α (≥ 0.7)	rho_A
KS attitude	0.72 to 0.87	0.65	0.90	0.87	0.91
SN about KS	0.85 to 0.91	0.77	0.87	0.71	0.74
PBC over KS	0.85 to 0.89	0.75	0.86	0.68	0.70
KSI	0.73 to 0.84	0.62	0.89	0.85	0.85
KSB	0.74 to 0.86	0.65	0.90	0.86	0.86
Openness	0.83 to 0.92	0.78	0.87	0.73	0.84
Extraversion	0.88 to 0.89	0.80	0.89	0.75	0.75
Agreeableness	0.77 to 0.93	0.73	0.84	0.67	0.82
Neuroticism	0.90 to 0.91	0.84	0.90	0.79	0.79
Conscientiousness	0.87 to 0.89	0.78	0.87	0.72	0.72

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