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Table 5 Local goodness of fit indices on the factor level in the Austrian sample (N = 1021)

From: The Pandemic Stressor Scale: factorial validity and reliability of a measure of stressors during a pandemic

Scale

FRa

AVEa

Coefficient of determination (R2)

Discriminant from (AVE > R2)b

CC

WP

RF

BI

MC

HC

FI

AR

RA

Problems with childcare (CC)

.94

.88

1

.02

.02

.00

.01

.20

.01

.02

.01

All

Work-related problems (WP)

.86

.57

.02

1

.09

.09

.07

.05

.05

.06

.06

All

Restricted face-to-face contact (RF)

.86

.60

.02

.09

1

.08

.16

.14

.21

.17

.48

All

Burden of infection (BI)

.79

.56

.00

.09

.08

1

.04

.01

.39

.12

.01

All

Crisis management and communication (MC)

.79

.56

.01

.07

.16

.04

1

.10

.07

.24

.17

All

Difficult housing condition (HC)

.80 (.79)

.57

.20

.05

.14

.01

.10

1

.05

.05

.11

All

Fear of infection (FI)

.75

.44 (.43)

.01

.05

.21

.39

.07

.05

1

.18

.07

All

Restricted access to resources (AR)

.65

.38 (.39)

.02

.06

.17

.12

.24

.05

.18

1

.15

All

Restricted activity (RA)

.73

.48

.01

.06

.48

.01

.17

.11

.07

.15

1

All, but SC

Pandemic stressors (PS)

.97

.55

  1. FR Factor reliability; AVE Average Variance Extracted
  2. aNumbers in brackets indicate differing results for the first-order factors in Model 2, otherwise results were the same for both models
  3. bFornell-Larcker criterion[36]