A New Approach to Testing Nomological Validity and Its Application to a Second-Order Measurement Model of Trust

Authors

Liping Liu, The University of AkronFollow
Chan Li, University of PittsburghFollow
Dan Zhu, Iowa State UniversityFollow

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.

Recommended Citation

Liu, Liping; Li, Chan; and Zhu, Dan (2012) "A New Approach to Testing Nomological Validity and Its Application to a Second-Order Measurement Model of Trust," Journal of the Association for Information Systems, 13(12), .
DOI: 10.17705/1jais.00320
Available at: https://aisel.aisnet.org/jais/vol13/iss12/4

DOI

10.17705/1jais.00320