Development and psychometric validation of a novel health literacy scale for family caregivers of preschool children

Table 4 Convergent validity of the HLSFC (n = 230)

Paths			Estimate	CR^a	AVE^b
Item 1	< –-	FHL	0.754	0.944	0.586
Item 2	< –-	FHL	0.897
Item 3	< –-	FHL	0.781
Item 4	< –-	FHL	0.731
Item 5	< –-	FHL	0.772
Item 6	< –-	FHL	0.767
Item 7	< –-	FHL	0.691
Item 8	< –-	FHL	0.764
Item 9	< –-	FHL	0.747
Item 10	< –-	FHL	0.721
Item 11	< –-	FHL	0.823
Item 12	< –-	FHL	0.716
Item 14	< –-	IHL	0.767	0.937	0.552
Item 15	< –-	IHL	0.762
Item 16	< –-	IHL	0.720
Item 17	< –-	IHL	0.740
Item 18	< –-	IHL	0.765
Item 19	< –-	IHL	0.755
Item 20	< –-	IHL	0.787
Item 21	< –-	IHL	0.727
Item 22	< –-	IHL	0.724
Item 23	< –-	IHL	0.701
Item 25	< –-	IHL	0.741
Item 26	< –-	IHL	0.724
Item 27	< –-	CHL	0.730	0.928	0.589
Item 28	< –-	CHL	0.744
Item 29	< –-	CHL	0.761
Item 30	< –-	CHL	0.789
Item 31	< –-	CHL	0.837
Item 32	< –-	CHL	0.807
Item 33	< –-	CHL	0.731
Item 34	< –-	CHL	0.777
Item 35	< –-	CHL	0.724

FHL, IHL & CHL represent the dimensions of Functional Health Literacy, Interactive Health Literacy and Critical Health Literacy, respectively
^aCR represents composite reliability
^bAVE represents average variance extracted values

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