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Showing 1 to 20 of 115 for “"Causal Model"”.
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Investigating a causal model of anxiety in sport
… tested the Martens, Vealey, and Burton (1990) model of competitive anxiety. In experiment one, perceived uncertainty of outcome, one of three hypothesised causes of state anxiety (A-state), was manipulated by assigning 72 golfers to either a low uncertainty group (LU), composed of unequal …
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Experimental Design for Optimal Shift Intervention in Causal Model
Transforming a causal system from a given initial state to a desired target state is an important task permeating multiple fields including control theory, biology, and materials science. In causal models, such transformations can be achieved by performing a set of interventions. When the space of …
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A hypothesized, general causal model of a gainsharing program
… From their verbal descriptions, a site-specific causal model was created. This site-specific model was then compared to the gainsharing literature and a general model hypothesized. Future research studies could build on the research findings to enhance the quality of the general case model. …
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Predicting drug interactions with a three level causal model
… cardiovascular system is described. TLCM traces causal paths of drug action through up to three levels of drug action. The three levels which are molecular/receptor level, physiological level and clinical level provide both deep and shallow reasoning in order to overcome the problem of unknowns …
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Financial aid and the college enrollment decision: a causal model
… of this study was to construct and test a model of the factors affecting high school students' first time entry into different types of postsecondary institutions. To test the model, a sample (N = 5395) of high school students was drawn from the sophomore cohort of High School and Beyond …
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A social causal model approach to college student disciplinary offender status
… of this study was to construct and test a causal model of college student disciplinary status. Containment Theory, Control Theory, and Involvement Theory served as the theoretical foundation of the study. Variables in the model were operationalized from the College Student Experiences …
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The Dynamics of Community Change in Rural India: A Causal Model
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A causal model of general attitudes, work withdrawal, and job withdrawal, including retirement
… and behavioral constructs, were examined in a causal model. Retirement intentions and desires to retire were included in a conceptualization of organizational withdrawal because recent legislation has removed mandatory retirement for virtually all employees. Retirement decisions may now be …
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A causal model of the determinants of job satisfaction in the public sector
… of this study have been to present a refined model of job satisfaction and to test it with more caution on measurement problems. The structural equations model with latent variables is the approach used to estimate the model. The data were from the Federal Employee Attitude Survey. These data …
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Patterns of Psychological Adaptation in Death and Dying: A Causal Model and Exploratory Study
… framework which was used to formulate and test a causal model. This study, in addition, had a qualitative component that identified, from the participants' spontaneous responses, reactions to and perceptions of the dying process. A sample of 97 adults was recruited from two metropolitan home …
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Dealing with cultural diversity: An empirical test of a causal model of intergroup relations
… (1992) was tested using a structural equation modelling approach. Specifically, the study looked at perceived cultural level variables (e.g., history of conflict, cultural distance, knowledge of culture) and interpersonal variables (e.g., perceived similarity, opportunity to interact) to …
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Development and test of a causal model of midlife women's attainments, commitments and satisfactions
This study developed and tested a model of midlife women's attainments, commitments and satisfactions under differing conditions of marriage and parenthood. The model proposed that life satisfaction for women is a function of three sets of influences: (1) adult status attainments, (2) home and work …
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Social disorganization and individual choice: A multi-level causal model of the etiology of delinquency.
… and individual choice: A multi-level causal model of the etiology of delinquency.
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A Prospective Investigation of Social-Cognitive Predictors of Physical Activity: Development of a Causal Model
This study tested a model of the relationship between social-cognitive variables and physical activity in a sample of 277 university students using a prospective design. Results of structural equation modeling indicated a good fit of the social-cognitive model to the data. Self-efficacy had the …
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Using Matching Methods From Both Fisher's Experimental Design and Rubin's Causal Model to Compare Between Two Medical Facilities with Extremely Skewed Number of Subjects
… both Fisher's experimental design and Rubin's Causal Model (RCM) the present study attempts to offer ways to draw the causal inference in a non-experimental study with sample size disparity between two comparison groups, especially when collected data disable a researcher to analyze.</p><p>The …
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A Causal Model of Linkages between Environment and Organizational Structure, and Its Performance Implications in International Service Distribution: An Empirical Study of Restaurant and Hotel Industry
This research develops and tests a model of the service unit ownership and control patterns used by international service companies. The main purpose of this study is to investigate trivariate causal relationships among environmental factors, organizational structure, and perceived performance in …
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Automated Social Science: Language Models as Scientist and Subjects
… possible by recent advances in large language models (LLM), but the key feature of the approach is the use of structural causal models. Structural causal models provide a language to state hypotheses, a blueprint for constructing LLM-based agents, an experimental design, and a plan for data …
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The access to causal relations in semantic memory
… Dissertation wurde die Dissoziation zwischen der Causal Model Theorie und der Assoziationistischen Ansicht über die Repräsentation von Kausalrelationen im semantischen Gedächtnis untersucht. Die Assoziationistische Ansicht postuliert, dass kausale Relationen und andere Relationen als Assoziationen …
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Qualitative modeling in the turbojet engine domain
Mechanism modeling is currently a very active area of Artificial Intelligence. Several theories of mechanism modeling have resulted from this work and have been applied to such tasks as simulation, analysis, and troubleshooting in domains such as electronic circuit analysis and steam plant …
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Role of Causal Relationships in the Story Comprehension of Children
… purpose of this study was to examine the role of causal relationships in the comprehension of stories by children using a model for comprehending events as causal relationships (Trabasso, Secco, van den Broek, 1983). Although causal relations play a role in earlier story grammars, this causal …
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