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Showing 1 to 20 of 191 for “"Structural Equation Modeling (SEM)"”.
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Factors Explaining EFL Learners' Performance in a Timed Essay Writing Test: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach
The results of the comprehensive modeling using structural equation modeling (SEM) revealed L2 language knowledge as the most important predictor for L2 writing performance with all five variables explaining 70.4% of the variance in L2 writing performance. Further, a simultaneous multi-group SEM …
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Identifying Dysfunction in Persistent Social Deviance: Perspective Taking as a Mediator of the Relationship Between Psychopathy and Social Aggression
… as a potential mediator of this relationship. Structural equation modeling (SEM) was used to assess perspective taking as a potential partial mediator of the relationship between psychopathy and social aggression in a sample of 439 undergraduates. Although bivariate correlations produced the …
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Students' Adjustment Over the Transition to Middle School: The Role of Caregiver and Teacher Attachments
Structural equation modeling (SEM) was used to evaluate a model of students' adjustment over the transition from elementary school to middle school. A secure attachment to one's primary caregiver and a secure attachment to one's elementary schoolteacher were hypothesized to predict perceived …
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How the quality of the early mother-infant relationship Influences decision making in risky situations later in life
… (NICHD-SECCYD). Data was analyzed through structural equation modeling (SEM). Executive function, attachment, and risky behavior were unrelated in the study sample. Income was a significant predictor of attachment for females, but not males. Income was an equal and significant predictor of …
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Understanding Process Improvement: Social Psychological Factors Affecting the Use of Project Management Practices
… using a latent constructs approach and structural equation modeling (SEM) techniques. Overall, constructs from TRA and TAM, but not TPB, predict the use of specific project estimating, plan development, and plan commitment practices defined in the Capability Maturity Models (CMM/I).
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An examination of proposed risk factors in bulimic symptomatology among college women
… theoretical models were also explored through Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) analysis. A sample consisting of 200 female undergraduate students completed the following measures: The Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale (MPS), The Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II), the Toronto …
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Registered Nurses' Attitudes Toward The Protection Of Gays And Lesbians In The Workplace: An Examination Of Homophobia And Discriminatory Beliefs
… one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) and structural equation modeling (SEM), correlations between independent variables (gender, age, religious association, belief in the "free choice" model of homosexuality, education level, exposure to homosexuals through friends and/or family …
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Development of A Self-Report Instrument For Assessing Deceptive Behaviors
… 2. Our hypothesized structure was tested using structural equation modeling (SEM) and proposed relationships were, for the most part, supported. We suggest that categories of lying represent a hierarchy of broad to more specific types.</p>
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Multicultural Efficacy Among White Resident Hall Directors: Predicting White Privilege Attitudes
… of White resident hall directors (N =206). Structural equation modeling (SEM) was used in the current study to examine the mediating effect of multicultural efficacy on White privilege attitudes measured by the White Privilege Attitude Scale, Psychosocial Costs of Racism to Whites, and Color …
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Athletic Identity, Coping, and Perceptions of Stress among Students Transitioning to College and out of Competitive Sport
… After conducting a thorough literature review, a structural model was developed and empirically tested using a 48-item questionnaire comprised of three different Likert-type scales. The sample population consisted of undergraduate students at three public southwestern universities. Of the students …
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Modeling eating pathology: The role of gender, sociocultural, and individual factors
… = 423) completed a battery of surveys online. Structural equation modeling (SEM) was used to model the relationships among the variables. The results show that the best fitting model included perfectionism rather than thin-ideal internalization leading to body dissatisfaction. There is support …
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The Relationship Between Vicarious Traumatization and Job Retention Among Child Welfare Professionals
… efficacy, and professional satisfaction. Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) was used to assess the degree of fit between the observed data and several hypothesized theoretical models examining the relationship between vicarious trauma, coping strategies, professional efficacy, professional …
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Basic Psychological Needs Satisfaction, Autonomy Support, and Mindsets as Predictors of Self-Regulation in University Online Learners
… support and self-regulation. To assess the data, structural equation modeling (SEM) was employed.</p> <p>Method</p> <p>This study used quantitative analysis of non-experimental survey data collected via Alchemer. A model-testing design was used to examine a theoretical model which proposed that …
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Character, conditions, and cognitions: the role of personality, climate, intensity, and moral disengagement in the unethical decision-making process
… and unethical behavior. Maximum-likelihood structural equation modeling (SEM) was used to test the main effects of core self-evaluation, ethical climate, and moral intensity as well as the mediating and moderating hypotheses. The study's implications as well as limitations and directions for …
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Tahap kepuasan kerja dan komitmen organisasi dalam kalangan guru kolej vokasional: pendekatan structural equation model
… descriptive analysis while AMOS 18 was used for Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). The study found that promotional opportunities, workload and relationship with colleagues significantly affect job satisfaction of teachers. Most importantly, this study also confirmed that there is a significant …
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The role of culture in the somatic response of peer-victimized Latino youth
… to 14 years old. Analyses were conducted using structural equation modeling(SEM) employing multiple indicators for cultural orientation variables and somatization, and a manifest variable for peer victimization. No evidence was found that the Latino cultural orientation variables were associated …
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Personality and the healthy lifestyle as predictors of physical health: Can the healthy lifestyle be explained by personality?
… I evaluated the HLS as a latent variable. Using structural equation modeling (SEM) I evaluated the degree to which the shared variance of HLS components is accounted for by personality traits, and tested the HLS as a mediator of the personality health relationship. Across all three samples, the …
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The role of prosocial behavior and peer belonging in adolescents' classroom engagement
… self-report surveys in the spring of 2022. Structural equation modeling (SEM) was used to test the main effect of students' perceptions of their own and their classmates' prosocial behavior on peer belonging and emotional, behavioral, and cognitive engagement, and the mediating effect of …
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Applying social cognitive career theory to college science majors
… experiences, aptitude, and parent support. Structural equation modeling (SEM) was used to assess model fit for the whole sample as well as men and women separately. Results indicated that social cognitive career theory was a good fit for the data with some exceptions; it was also found that …
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The Effects of Cognitive and Affective Organizational Identification and Personality on Job Satisfaction and Organizational Commitment
… indirect hypotheses were tested using structural equation modeling (SEM). The findings indicated that both COID and AOID predicted organizational commitment.
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