scholarly journals Metalinguistic awareness in bilingual children's word reading: A cross-lagged panel study on cross-linguistic transfer facilitation

2016 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 395-426 ◽  
Author(s):  
DONGBO ZHANG ◽  
CHERN-FAR CHIN ◽  
LI LI
Keyword(s):  
Structural Equation ◽  
Word Reading ◽  
Panel Study ◽  
Morphological Awareness ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Metalinguistic Awareness ◽  
Word Decoding ◽  
Facilitation Effect ◽  
Grade 3 ◽  
Linguistic Transfer

ABSTRACTThis longitudinal study examined metalinguistic awareness in bilingual word reading development among Malay–English bilingual children in Singapore. Participants were assessed with the same tasks twice with a 1-year interval from Grade 3 to Grade 4 in phonological and morphological awareness and derived word decoding in both English and Malay. Structural equation modeling analyses revealed that both types of metalinguistic awareness significantly predicted derived word reading in both languages. Subsequent cross-lagged panel modeling found construct-level transfer facilitation effect from Malay on English for phonological awareness but conversely from English on Malay for morphological awareness. Neither type of metalinguistic awareness exerted a transfer facilitation effect on word reading. These findings shed light on the developmental mechanism of cross-linguistic transfer in biliteracy acquisition.

scholarly journals Relationships between Social Capital, Social Capital Satisfaction, Self-Esteem, and Depression among Elderly Urban Residents: Analysis of Secondary Survey Data

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (8) ◽  
pp. 1445 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lee ◽  
Lee ◽  
Song
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Panel Study ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Urban Residents ◽  
Elderly Persons ◽  
Capital Social ◽  
Psychological Variables ◽  
Research Attention

The role that psychological variables play in depression among elderly urban residents has received little research attention. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to examine the relationships between social capital, social capital satisfaction, self-esteem, and depression among elderly urban residents. We used the responses provided by 701 elderly persons to scales assessing social capital (i.e., network, trust), social capital satisfaction, self-esteem, and depression, as part of the Korea Welfare Panel Study (KOWEPS). We conducted a confirmatory factor analysis and tested the validity of a proposed statistical model using structural equation modeling (SEM). The results showed that trust in social capital, social capital satisfaction, and self-esteem were significantly related to depression. Further, social capital satisfaction and self-esteem fully and partially mediated the relationship between trust and depression, respectively. These findings serve as an empirical base upon which social welfare policies can be founded that benefit elderly urban residents with weak social capital, low social capital satisfaction, and poor self-esteem.

scholarly journals The Effect of Home Environment on Adolescent Substance Use and Depressive Symptoms

1997 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 851-877 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Susan Su ◽  
John P. Hoffmann ◽  
Dean R. Gerstein ◽  
Robert A. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Substance Use ◽  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Affective Disorder ◽  
Substance Use Disorder ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Panel Study ◽  
Adolescent Substance Use ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Adolescent Substance ◽  
Parental Substance Use

We used data from the screening phase and first two waves of a panel study to compare the home environments of families with a substance-abusing parent, families with a depressed parent, and families in a comparison group. We diagnosed substance use disorder and affective disorder by administering the Structural Clinical Interview for the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (third edition, revised) to each participating parent. The data suggest that families in which parents display a substance use disorder are very similar to those in which parents suffer from affective disorder, in terms of negative life events and lower family cohesion. The results of structural equation modeling indicate that parental substance use disorder and parental affective disorder influence adolescent substance use and depressive symptoms. In addition, parental substance use disorder has a direct influence on adolescent substance use at the time the first-wave data were collected, but this effect does not persist over time.

Like Parent, Like Child? Aging Anxiety Among Married Korean Baby Boomers

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yijung K Kim ◽  
Kyungmin Kim ◽  
Kathrin Boerner ◽  
Gyounghae Han
Keyword(s):  
Baby Boomers ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Panel Study ◽  
Intergenerational Relationships ◽  
Health Condition ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Financial Condition ◽  
Financial Conditions ◽  
Financial Challenges ◽  
Aging Anxiety

Abstract Objectives How intergenerational relationships influence individuals’ views on aging remains understudied. This study investigated how multiple older family members’ health and financial challenges may shape middle-aged adults’ aging anxiety. Method Married Korean baby boomers (N = 1,389) from the Korean Baby Boomer Panel Study reported on their own aging anxiety and rated each of their living parents’ and in-laws’ health and financial conditions. Using structural equation modeling, we examined how parents’ and in-laws’ health and financial challenges are associated with one’s aging anxiety, and whether gender and frequency of intergenerational contact moderate the link. We expected worse health or financial conditions to be associated with higher levels of aging anxiety, and the effect to be more pronounced for women and those with more contact. Results A worse financial condition of the poorest parent/in-law was associated with higher levels of aging anxiety, while worse health condition of the unhealthiest parent/in-law was associated with lower levels of aging anxiety. The same results were found when we considered the sum of all living parents’ and in-laws’ financial and health conditions. Frequency of contact moderated the effect of the financial condition of the poorest parent/in-law, such that individuals reporting more contact with the poorest parent/in-law showed higher levels of aging anxiety than those with less contact. There was no moderating effect of gender. Discussion The findings highlight the role family ties play in shaping one’s aging anxiety. Interventions aimed at improving views on aging through intergenerational interactions should target the quality of the intergenerational experience.

scholarly journals Personality traits an antecedent or consequences of workplace bullying

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 736-755
Author(s):  
Khalida Naseem ◽  
Alia Ahed
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Repeated Measures ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Workplace Bullying ◽  
Longitudinal Research ◽  
Panel Study ◽  
Personality Change ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Managerial Implication ◽  
The Impact

This study investigates whether Big Five personality traits are antecedents or consequences of bullying. A two-panel study designed in which panel one T1 data collected in one attempt and after a year panel, two T2 time data collected in the second attempt. Existing research on bullying found that individuals exposed to bullying experience an increase in conscientiousness and neuroticism and a decrease in agreeableness. It is claimed that the personality of the victim contributes to the bullying escalation process. There is still research scarcity whether personality is the cause of bullying or bullying results in personality change and another gap found in previous research was the lack of longitudinal research intended in shaping the individual antecedents or the impact of workplace bullying. By bridging these gaps, our study with simple random sampling collected data from university employees (N = 725). Manova test with repeated measures and structural equation modeling (SEM) analysis in AMOS was then used to examine and parallel many competing models to govern data fitness. Results found that experience of bullying in the first interval T1 leads to reduce in agreeableness and an increase in neuroticism in second interval T2. Managerial implication is also discussed.

Metalinguistic contribution to reading comprehension: A comparison of Primary 3 students from China and Singapore

2020 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 657-684
Author(s):  
Sun Baoqi ◽  
Guangwei Hu ◽  
Xiao Lan Curdt-Christiansen
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Phonological Awareness ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Morphological Awareness ◽  
Home Language ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Bilingual Children ◽  
Metalinguistic Awareness ◽  
Regression Analyses ◽  
Syntactic Awareness

AbstractThis study examined the within- and cross-language metalinguistic contribution of three components of metalinguistic awareness (i.e., phonological awareness, morphological awareness, and syntactic awareness) to reading comprehension in monolingual Chinese-speaking children from Mainland China (n = 190) and English–Chinese bilingual children from Singapore (n = 390). Moreover, the effect of home language use on the relationship between metalinguistic awareness and reading performance was investigated. For monolingual children, hierarchical regression analyses revealed that after partialing out the effects of age, nonverbal intelligence, and oral vocabulary, syntactic awareness uniquely predicted 7%–13% of the variance in reading comprehension measures, whereas this relationship was not observed between morphological awareness and reading comprehension. For the bilingual children, within-language regression analyses revealed that English/Chinese morphological awareness and syntactic awareness both contributed significantly to English/Chinese reading measures over and above vocabulary and phonological awareness. Cross-linguistically, structure equation modeling results demonstrated that the bilingual children’s English and Chinese metalinguistic awareness were closely related and jointly supported reading comprehension in both languages, thus lending support to Koda’s transfer facilitation model. Furthermore, home language use was found to contribute to the bilingual children’s reading proficiency via its impact on metalinguistic awareness. The paper concludes with a discussion of the policy and pedagogical implications that can be drawn from these findings.

Consumer File Sharing of Motion Pictures

2007 ◽  
Vol 71 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thorsten Hennig-Thurau ◽  
Victor Henning ◽  
Henrik Sattler
Keyword(s):  
Structural Equation ◽  
Utility Theory ◽  
Panel Study ◽  
Motion Pictures ◽  
File Sharing ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Actual Behavior ◽  
Movie Industry ◽  
Regression Analyses ◽  
Sharing Behavior

Illegal consumer file sharing of motion pictures is considered a major threat to the movie industry. Whereas industry advocates and some scholars postulate a cannibalistic effect on commercial forms of movie consumption, other researchers deny this effect, though sound evidence is lacking on both sides. Drawing on extant research and utility theory, the authors present hypotheses on the consequences and determinants of consumer file sharing and test them with data from a controlled longitudinal panel study of German consumers. The data contain information on the consumers' intentions toward and actual behavior in relation to the consumption of 25 new motion pictures, allowing the authors to study more than 10,000 individual file-sharing opportunities. The authors test the effect of file sharing on commercial movie consumption using a series of ReLogit regression analyses and apply partial least squares structural equation modeling to identify the determinants of consumer file sharing. They find evidence of substantial cannibalization of theater visits, DVD rentals, and DVD purchases responsible for annual revenue losses of $300 million in Germany. Five categories of file-sharing behavior drive file sharing and have a significant impact on how consumers obtain and watch illegal movie copies.

Orthographic processing and children’s word reading

2018 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 509-534 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. HÉLÈNE DEACON ◽  
ADRIAN PASQUARELLA ◽  
EVA MARINUS ◽  
TALISA TIMS ◽  
ANNE CASTLES
Keyword(s):  
Structural Equation ◽  
Word Reading ◽  
Reading Development ◽  
Orthographic Knowledge ◽  
Orthographic Processing ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Phonological Decoding ◽  
Third Grade Students ◽  
Theories Of Reading ◽  
Orthographic Learning

ABSTRACTTheories of reading development generally agree that, in addition to phonological decoding, some kind of orthographic processing skill underlies the ability to learn to read words. However, there is a lack of clarity as to which aspect(s) of orthographic processing are key in reading development. We test here whether this is orthographic knowledge and/or orthographic learning. Whereas orthographic knowledge has been argued to reflect a child’s existing store of orthographic representations, orthographic learning is concerned with the ability to form these representations. In a longitudinal study of second- and third-grade students, we evaluate the relations between these two aspects of orthographic processing and word-reading outcomes. The results of our analyses show that variance captured by orthographic knowledge overlaps with that of word reading, to the point that they form a single latent word-reading factor. In contrast, orthographic learning is distinctive from this factor. Further, structural equation modeling demonstrates that early orthographic learning was related to gains in word reading skills. We discuss the implications of these findings for theories of word-reading development.

scholarly journals A Critical Analysis of the WAQ: The Development of a Korean Form

2020 ◽  
pp. 003329412095977
Author(s):  
Sudol Kang
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Convergent Validity ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Discriminant Validity ◽  
Panel Study ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Reliability Coefficient ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Main Body ◽  
Economic Sectors

The current study aimed to develop a simplified version of the Korean Workaholism Scale (KOWS) by determining the reliability and validity of the Workaholism Analysis Questionnaire (WAQ) initially created by Aziz et al. The original scale of the WAQ was translated into Korean and then administered to 4,242 working people from a broad range of economic sectors. The nation-wide sample was a representative one from the 17th wave Korean Labor and Income Panel Study in 2014. The main body comprises two steps. First, through an exploratory factor analysis (EFA) as well as a reliability analysis, along with content validity examination among experts, thirteen items from the original WAQ were eliminated. The EFA yielded a four-factor solution with four items established in compulsive dependency (CD), four in illusion of control (IC), four in endurance of conflicts (EC), and four in withdrawal symptoms (WS). This process provided a succinct and convenient measure of workaholism, the KOWS with 16 items. The reliability coefficient (α) of the new scale was .90, and the split-half reliability coefficient was .72. Secondly, confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was performed by way of structural equation modeling to validate the new construct. This KOWS showed adequate convergent validity (AVE > .5), construct reliability (CR > .7), as well as discriminant validity (AVE > ρ2). Between four subscales of the KOWS and affective commitment (AC) to organizations there proved meager correlation. In conclusion, the KOWS with 16-item psychometric properties is a valid and reliable tool to measure workaholism in South Korea.

scholarly journals High Potential of Computer-Based Reading Assessment

2020 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Pauline Auphan ◽  
Jean Ecalle ◽  
Annie Magnan
Keyword(s):  
Reading Ability ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Word Reading ◽  
Response Times ◽  
Reading Assessment ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Validity And Reliability ◽  
Correlation Matrices ◽  
Developmental Issues ◽  
Computer Based

The aim of this study is to propose advantages provided by computerized tools when assessing reading ability. A new computer-based reading assessment evaluating both word reading and reading comprehension processes was administered to 687 children in primary (N=400) and secondary (N=287) schools. Accuracy (weighted scores) and speed of access (response times) automatically recorded by the software were analyzed based on developmental issues (Anovas), correlation matrices, structural equation modeling and clinical interpretation. Results underlined the validity and reliability of the tool. The Discussion addresses the limitations of the present computer-based assessment and presents perspectives for taking fuller advantage of computerized technologies.

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