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The paper aims at validating the instrument of the study by conducting Confirmatory Factor
Analysis (CFA) and the measurement model and also the overall goodness of model fit indices.
Similarly, the measurement model of both the combined exogenous and endogenous variables
was performed in order to assess the psychometric properties of the measures in the study.
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that the measurement model fitted the data after checking modification indices and deleting
items that have weak loadings and/or high correlation errors. It was therefore, concluded that
the model fit the empirical data and is set for conducting construct validity and subsequently
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