The mediating role of moral courage in the relationship between ethical leadership and error reporting behavior among nurses in Saudi Arabia: a structural equation modeling approach

Table 3 Descriptive statistics, reliability, validity and correlation analysis (n = 269)

The study variables	Mean ± SD	α	CR	AVE	MSV	1	2	3
1. EL	4.08 ± 0.59	0.91	0.915	0.522	0.293	0.723	0.461	0.543
2. MC	4.26 ± 0.48	0.84	0.847	0.582	0.212	0.416***	0.763	0.391
3. ERB	4.31 ± 0.65	0.85	0.853	0.661	0.293	0.487***	0.355***	0.813

Abbreviations: EL: Ethical leadership, MC: Moral Courage, ERB: Error Reporting Behavior
Note: AVE, average variance extracted; CR, composite reliability; SD, standard deviation. Bolded values on the diagonals represent the square root of AVE; below diagonal values are construct correlations; italics values above the diagonal represent HTMT ratio
***p < 0.001

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