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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Hierarchical Linear Modelling"”.
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Morphological Sensitivity: A Hierarchical Analysis of Student and Word Factors
… the disagreement between previous studies. A Hierarchical Linear Modelling (HLM) approach allows for examination of cross-level interactions between students and the words that they read in a lexical decision priming task. The results demonstrate that more skilled readers are more …
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The relationship between nurses educational background and the safety and quality of patient care in surgical units in private hospitals in Gauteng
… study, Nurse Forecasting in Europe (RN4CAST). Hierarchical linear modelling was used to examine the relationships among the variables in the 304 completed and returned questionnaires. Results: Overall, both registered- and enrolled nurses seemed satisfied with the safety and quality of care …
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The effect of the guided disclosure protocol on daily stress, mood and coping
… Results: The data were analysed using hierarchical linear modelling. Analysis found little evidence in support of the main effects of disclosure on mood. Expressive writers were found to report greater negative mood than controls at Time 2. In addition there was no evidence that coping …
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Attachment as Diathesis: An examination of adult attachment as depressive vulnerability when individuals are faced with negative events
… analyses, b) using a daily diary and hierarchical linear modelling, and c) longitudinally examining effects over a 3-month time period. Several findings demonstrated the important impact attachment insecurity has on depressed mood but the results differed across method. …
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The Role of Maternal Psychological Distress on Neurobehavioural Disinhibition among Preschoolers Exposed Prenatally to Methamphetamine
… Functioning - Pre-school Edition (BRIEF-P). Hierarchical linear modelling was used to estimate suspected causal relationships between indicators of maternal behavioural health at four time points across the 4.5 year follow-up, according to self-report on the Substance Use Inventory (SUI) and …
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Teachers' Cultural Competence and Students' Perception of the Social Classroom Climate in Culturally Different Middle School Classrooms
… on the four key factors of the social climate. Hierarchical Linear Modelling was used to assess the influence of teacher cultural competence and several demographic variables on student perception of the classroom social environment.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>Several demographic variables were shown …
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Predictors of Positive Change in Teaching Practices: A Quantitative Study
… modeling statistical methods (i.e., a two-level hierarchical linear model) to examine the Colombian and United Stated datasets. Before estimating the hierarchical linear models, I conducted an exploratory factor analysis (EFA) to identify the teacher-level variables. One follow-up EFA focused on …
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Equity and effectiveness in East African primary schools
… of schools in Southern and Eastern Africa. Hierarchical Linear Modelling is used toanalyse data on schools and students in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda.The results demonstrate that, although valuable for establishing general patterns of effects,comparative studies should be followed by further …
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Positive psychology and sleep: the influence of an internet-based exercise
… cognitions between baseline and follow-up. Hierarchical linear modelling (HLM) was used to explore daily measurements of sleep and affect. Results: Results supported previous work in finding positive relationships between high SQ and measures of SWB, including trait gratitude. Those …
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Sleep/wake patterns and key predictors for sleep impairment in patient-caregiver dyads:: a longitudinal observational study among women with early stage breast cancer and their informal caregivers during chemotherapy treatment
… to approximately 88% at CThC4. Multivariate hierarchical linear modelling revealed curvilinear trajectories for most dyads’ sleep/wake parameters that nevertheless reached significance (p<.05) for patients only. In both groups, sleep/wake impairment reached its peak at mid-treatment (CThC4); …
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Teacher assessment literacy and student outcomes in the province of Tawi-Tawi, Philippines
… Rasch modeling, structural equation modeling and hierarchical linear modeling, thematic analysis, and through the use of a number of software applications and include SPSS 16.0, LISREL 8.80, and HLM 6.08 to analyse the data. The results revealed that the elementary and secondary school teachers in …