How nursing practice environments limit implicit rationing of care and nurse-assessed adverse events: the role of flow at work

Table 3 Descriptive statistics, measurement validation and correlations of studied variables (N = 231)

Variable	Mean (SD)	α	Factors loading	CR	AVE	MSV	1	2	3	4
1. NPE	2.67 (0.54)	0.95	0.66–0.94	0.91	0.67	0.41	(0.82)	0.591	0.419	0.526
2. FW	4.39 (1.14)	0.92	0.73–0.95	0.86	0.66	0.40	0.55***	(0.81)	0.421	0.501
3. IRNC	1.82 (0.77)	0.97	0.72–0.91	0.97	0.86	0.19	-0.38***	-0.39***	(0.93)	0.400
4. APE	2.89 (1.35)	0.91	0.74–0.89	0.92	0.68	0.28	-0.48***	-0.49***	0.37***	(0.82)

APE Adverse patient events, AVE Average variance extracted, CR Composite reliability, SD Standard deviation, FW Flow at work, IRNC Implicit rationing of nursing care, MSV Maximum shared variance, NPE Nursing practice environment
Bold diagonals in parentheses represent the square root of AVE, while italicized values above diagonal elements are the HTMT ratios
*** means p < 0.001

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