Page 170 - Pure Life 32

The Strategic Model of Sports Leisure Management… M.S Kiani and L. Nazari (169

Divergent validity is the between that variable and
third criterion for examining other variables in the model

the fit of measurement at an acceptable level.
models, which in this After examining the fit
research is used in both of the measurement models,

parts of the first method it is time to fit the
(questions related to each structural model of the
variable are more correlated research. As mentioned

to that variable than to earlier, unlike measurement
other variables) and second models, the structural model
(another important criterion section has nothing to do

that Divergent validity is with questions (manifest
determined, the degree of variables) and only hidden
relationship of a variable variables are examined

with its questions is along with the relationships
compared to the relationship between them.
of that variable with other
variables). So that the

acceptable divergent validity
of a model means that a
variable in the model

interacts more with questions
than with other variables.
Divergent validity was

confirmed when the AVE
for each variable is greater
than the shared variance