I have to evaluate a Type II second-order construct (reflective-formative). Following the common two-step approach, I already evaluated the measurement (outer) model. Proceeding with the structural (inner) model, I want to check for multicollinearity between the first-order dimension. As this is typically done using the variance inflation factor (VIF), I wonder how to determine these within SPSS/AMOS.

I have read of two different approaches so far:

1) The VIFs correspond to the diagonal of the inverted correlation matrix between the first-order dimensions.

2) VIF = 1/(1-R^2) within linear regression

Both approaches lead to different values, so I wonder which approach is correct.

Especially since for the second approach I first have to create a new variable for each first-order dimension from its indicators, whereas the correlation matrix for the first approach is directly available in the AMOS output.

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