A New Approach to Testing Nomological Validity and Its Application to a Second-Order Measurement Model of Trust
Liu, Liping, Li, Chan, Zhu, Dan
Journal of the Association for Information Systems · 2012 · Volume 13 · Issue 12
Abstract
This paper examines the concept of the nomological validity of second- and/or higher-order measurement models. It also proposes a new approach that consists of measuring two validity indices — predictive and mediating efficiencies — to compare the efficacies of a research model with and without a higher-order abstraction. To illustrate this concept, we test a second-order measurement model of trust and study how it behaves in a nomological network of the consumer’s prior experience as an antecedent and willingness to buy as a consequent variable.
Keywords
Nomological Validity, Ecommerce, Trust in Internet Stores, Higher-Order Factor Models
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