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Mapping Latent Variables of Sustainable Behavior

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In the previous chapter, the author proposed a model to describe sustainable behavior (see Fig. 3.1) and explained how to built a questionnaire to test such proposed model among HEIs in different countries. In this chapter, firstly, an exploratory factor analysis (EFA) was used to prespecify the factors in terms of how well it reproduces the sample correlation (covariance) matrix of the measured variables to establish the underlying structure of SB construct. Secondly, a confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was used to guide the specification and evaluation of the factor model based on a strong empirical, conceptual foundation to validate such SB construct.

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    Variance (σ 2): The measure of variability produced by tacking the average of the sum of the squared deviation from the mean (Welkowitz et al. 2002).

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Juárez-Nájera, M. (2015). Mapping Latent Variables of Sustainable Behavior. In: Exploring Sustainable Behavior Structure in Higher Education. Management and Industrial Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19393-9_4

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