Assessing the mediating role of motivation in the relationship between perceived management support and perceived job satisfaction among family doctors in Jiangsu province, China

Table 1 CFA loadings and internal reliability testing

Variables	Item code	Estimate	S.E	t value	P	C–α	CR	AVE
Integrated motivation (Integ)	Integ1	0.901				0.945	0.949	0.862
	Integ2	0.899	0.035	29.133	***
	Integ3	0.982	0.031	35.556	***
External motivation (Ext)	Ext1	0.748				0.851	0.861	0.678
	Ext2	0.956	0.063	17.432	***
	Ext3	0.748	0.065	15.49	***
Identified motivation (Ident)	Ident1	0.865				0.935	0.937	0.832
	Ident2	0.876	0.041	25.123	***
	Ident3	0.99	0.039	30.367	***
Intrinsic motivation (IM)	IM1	0.957				0.873	0.877	0.706
	IM2	0.778	0.043	18.647	***
	IM3	0.773	0.043	18.489	***
Job satisfaction (JS)	JS1	0.793				0.803	0.812	0.53
	JS2	0.783	0.062	15.86	***
	JS3	0.819	0.063	16.475	***
	JS4	0.455	0.065	8.826	***
Introjected motivation (Introj)	Introj1	0.771				0.816	0.818	0.599
	Introj2	0.765	0.069	13.958	***
	Introj3	0.786	0.065	14.143	***
Amotivation (Amo)	Amo1	0.71				0.849	0.854	0.665
	Amo2	0.958	0.08	16.248	***
	Amo3	0.758	0.074	14.822	***
Perceived management support (PMS)	PMS1	0.696				0.905	0.905	0.545
	PMS2	0.745	0.081	13.999	***
	PMS3	0.78	0.081	14.599	***
	PMS4	0.769	0.078	14.418	***
	PMS5	0.724	0.076	13.622	***
	PMS6	0.749	0.077	14.07	***
	PMS7	0.699	0.074	13.188	***
	PMS8	0.738	0.079	13.865	***

C–α Cronbach’s alpha, CR Construct reliability, AVE Average variance extracted, CR Construct reliability, AVE average variance extracted
***p < 0.001

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