Validation of Mini-Mental Adjustment to Cancer scale in a Moroccan sample of breast cancer women

BMC Cancer

Table 3 Composite reliability, average variance extracted, maximum and average shared variance, and correlations between constructs

Latent Constructs	CR	AVE	MSV	ASV	Latent Constructs
Latent Constructs	CR	AVE	MSV	ASV	1	2	3	4	5
1. Helpless-Hopeless	.95	.75	.62	.41	.86
2. Anxious Preoccupation	.93	.66	.62	.24	.79^a	.81
3. Fighting Spirit	.97	.89	.59	.41	-.70^a	-.40^b	.94
4. Cognitive Avoidance	.97	.93	.41	.20	-.30^b	−.03	.43^b	.96
5. Fatalism	.93	.82	.59	.38	-.65^a	-.42^b	.77^a	.56^b	.90

b p < 0.01; a p < 0.001.
CR Composite reliability; AVE the square root of the average variance extracted; MSV Maximum Shared Variance; ASV Average Shared Variance.

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