scholarly journals The Mediating Role of Cognitive Flexibility in the Effect of Empathic Tendency on Teacher Professionalism

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 124-134
Author(s):  
ZÜLBIYE KAÇAY
Keyword(s):  
Physical Education ◽  
Cognitive Flexibility ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Personal Information ◽  
Equation Model ◽  
Teacher Professionalism ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Normality Test ◽  
Bartlett Test

The aim of the study was to determine whether cognitive flexibility had a mediating role in the effect of empathic tendencies of physical education and sports teachers on their professionalism. Empathic Tendency, Teacher Professionalism and Cognitive Flexibility Scales were used in the study with personal information form. A total of 283 physical education and sports teachers, 85 (30%) female and 198 (70%) male, voluntarily participated in the study. In the analysis of data, The Shapiro-Wilk normality test was used to determine if data set had a normal distribution or not.  Kaiser-Mayer-Olkin (KMO) coefficient and Bartlett test were used to determine the suitability of the data for factor analysis. The theoretically created model was tested with a structural equation model. In the study, descriptive statistics were used in order to determine the average scores obtained from the scales. AMOS and SPSS package programs were used for analysis of data set. It was determined that the participants' Empathic Tendency, Professionalism and Cognitive Flexibility levels were high. Also, all variables were determined to had a significant correlation between each other. It was determined that all variables positively affected each other, empathic tendency predicted both cognitive flexibility and teacher professionalism at certain rates (40%-28%), and cognitive flexibility had a mediating role in the relationship between empathic tendency and teacher professionalism. As a result, multifaceted and effective studies that will increase the empathic tendency and cognitive flexibility levels should be carried out.

Improving firm performance through inter-organizational collaborative innovations

2018 ◽  
Vol 56 (6) ◽  
pp. 1167-1182 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miguel Hernandez-Espallardo ◽  
Fabian Osorio-Tinoco ◽  
Augusto Rodriguez-Orejuela
Keyword(s):  
Firm Performance ◽  
Open Innovation ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Strong Support ◽  
Equation Model ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Innovation Culture ◽  
Collaborative Innovation

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to add to the existing knowledge about how firm performance is influenced by their involvement in collaborative innovation. The contextual resource-based dimensions improve the participating firm’s performance through its impact on the job-related attitudes of the firm’s personnel. Design/methodology/approach Hypotheses were tested using structural equation model to analyze a set of data collected through surveys among a sample of Colombian manufacturers. Findings This study provides empirical evidence that contributes to the scarce research in the open innovation arena about how human resources influence performance in the inter-organizational collaborative innovations. In particular, it offers strong support for the key mediating role of the employees’ job-related attitudes in the relationship between complementary capabilities and innovation culture as value-creating conditions, and the participating firm’s ultimate sales and financial performance. Research limitations/implications The results may be affected by the context of the data set. Further studies considering the influence of specific contextual variables, such as the type of innovation, the national culture or the type of partner, could yield richer insights that would help validate the results of this study. Practical implications This study provides useful information for managers. As well as creating the required conditions to add value in the collaborative innovation, they should work to guarantee the better job-related outcomes for the employees involved in collaborative innovation projects. Originality/value This research contributes to the open innovation literature. It posits the employee’s attitudes toward collaborative innovations as a factor of the utmost importance in determining how the external collaboration affects internal performance.

scholarly journals Marka Otantikliğinin Satın Alma Niyeti Üzerindeki Etkisinde Marka Bağlılığının Aracılık Rolü: X Marka Gıda Tüketicileri Üzerine Bir Uygulama

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 549-558
Author(s):  
Ebru Onurlubaş ◽  
Remzi Altunışık
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Brand Loyalty ◽  
Purchase Intention ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Equation Model ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Brand Authenticity ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Normality Test ◽  
Purchasing Intention

This study aims to determine the mediating role of brand loyalty in the effect of brand authenticity on purchasing intention. In this context, 384 face-to-face questionnaires were applied to X brand food consumers who are over the age of 18 in Istanbul Province with a convenience sampling method. SPSS 23 and AMOS 20 programs were used in the analysis of the data. The data were analysed by using Cronbach Alpha Coefficient method, Normality test, Explanatory Factor Analysis, Confirmatory Factor Analysis, Structural Equation Model and Sobel test. As a result of the research, it was determined that brand loyalty partially mediated the effect of brand authenticity on purchasing intention. Also, it has been determined that reliability, originality and naturalness, which are among the dimensions of brand authenticity, have a significant effect on brand loyalty and brand loyalty, originality and naturalness have a significant effect on purchase intention.

scholarly journals Harmonization of Green Motives and Green Business Strategies towards Sustainable Development of Hospitality and Tourism Industry: Green Environmental Policies

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (12) ◽  
pp. 6592
Author(s):  
Zahid Yousaf ◽  
Magdalena Radulescu ◽  
Crenguta Ileana Sinisi ◽  
Luminita Serbanescu ◽  
Loredana Maria Paunescu
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Hotel Industry ◽  
Equation Model ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Business Strategies ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Green Business ◽  
Hospitality And Tourism Industry

This study aims to investigate the direct impact of green motives (GM) and green business strategies (GBS) on sustainable development (SD) in the hospitality sector. It explores the direct links between GM and SD. Moreover, the mediating role of GBS between GM and SD was tested. The research relies on the stakeholders’ theory, which states that the organization’s success and future development depends on the satisfaction of stakeholders. Data were collected from 451 top managers and owners from 54 hotels (5, 4 and 3-star hotels) operating in Pakistan. Quantitative analysis including correlation, regression, confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation model techniques were used. The mediating role of GBS was assessed using the bootstrapping method. Results proved that GM and GBS enable hotel industry to achieve the targets of SD. Finding also proved that GBS act as a mediator between the GM and SD link. The hotel industry needs attention to achieve the targets of SD and customers’ inclination towards more hygienic and environmental issues after the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic situation has forced the hotel industry to adapt GBS initiated through GM. The current research articulated this upcoming issue and offered a SD model for the hotel industry.

scholarly journals The Mediating Role of Job Competence between Safety Participation and Behavioral Compliance

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (11) ◽  
pp. 5783
Author(s):  
Jia-Ming Wang ◽  
Pin-Chao Liao ◽  
Guan-Biao Yu
Keyword(s):  
Structural Equation ◽  
Safety Management ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Equation Model ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Behavioral Compliance ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Chinese Company ◽  
Job Competence

The effective improvement of employee behavioral compliance and safety performance is an important subject related to the sustainable development of the construction industry. Based on data from a Chinese company (n = 290), this study used a partial least squares-structural equation model to clarify the relationship among safety participation, job competence, and behavioral compliance. Empirical analysis found that: (1) safety participation had a significant positive impact on employees’ behavioral compliance; and (2) job competence played a partial mediating role between safety participation and behavioral compliance. By selecting two new perspectives of safety participation and job competence, this study derived new factors affecting behavioral compliance, constructed a new theory about safety management, and conducted an in-depth discussion on improving behavioral compliance theoretically. Practically, the research put forward a new decision-making model, deconstructed the mechanism between safety participation and behavioral compliance, and provided new guiding strategies for improving employee behavioral compliance.

scholarly journals Multiple Pathways: The Influence Mechanism of Greenspace Exposure on Mental Health—A Case Study of Hangzhou, China

Land ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 339
Author(s):  
Jiancheng Lu ◽  
Xiaolong Luo ◽  
Ningning Yang ◽  
Yang Shen
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Physical Activity ◽  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Personal Information ◽  
Image Interpretation ◽  
Remote Sensing Data ◽  
Equation Model ◽  
Influence Mechanism

Greenspace exposure (GSE) may have a positive impact on mental health. However, existing research lacks a classification analysis of the influence pathways of different GSE on mental health. Meanwhile, the research method is limited to the measurement of the green space ratio (GSR) based on remote sensing data, which ignores people’s real perception of greenspace. This paper aims to further expand the measurement method of GSE, taking Hangzhou, China as an example, and to reveal the influence mechanism of different GSE modes on mental health. We obtained the personal information, mental health, physical activity, and other data of the interviewees through a questionnaire (n = 461). Combined with a remote sensing satellite and the Baidu Street view database, the method of image interpretation and deep learning was used to obtain the GSR, green visual ratio (GVR), and green visual exposure (GVE). The structural equation model is used to analyze the relationship between different variables. The results showed that: (1) GSE has a certain positive effect on mental health; (2) there are differences in the influence mechanism of multiple measures of GSE on mental health—the GVR and GVE measures based on the interaction perspective between human and greenspace make the influence mechanism more complicated, and produce direct and indirect influence paths; and (3) greenspace perception, sense of community, and physical activity can act as mediators, and have indirect effects. Finally, we call for expanding the measurement index and methods of GSE and integrating them into the management and control practices of urban planning to promote the healthy development of communities and even cities.

Effects of social attachment on social media continuous usage intention: The mediating role of affective commitment

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Maosheng Yang ◽  
Shangui Hu ◽  
Bagna Essohanam Kpandika ◽  
Lei Liu
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Affective Commitment ◽  
Underlying Mechanism ◽  
Equation Model ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Social Attachment ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Continuous Usage Intention

BACKGROUND: Social attachment has been identified as a key antecedent motivating users’ social media involvement. However, there is a scarcity of research investigating whether and how three dimensions of social attachment exert impacts on users’ continuous usage intention of social media. OBJECTIVE: Based on structural equation model analysis, the current research clarifies the relationships between social attachment, affective commitment and social media continuous usage intention, which unveils the underlying mechanism through which three dimensions of social attachment influence users’ continuous usage intention of social media. METHODS: A survey was conducted with 536 informative responses obtained from TikTok public users for hypothesis testing analysis. RESULTS: Results indicate that three dimensions of social attachment (social connections, social dependence and social identity) are all positively related to users’ continuous usage intention of social media. Affective commitment partially mediates the relationship between social attachment and users’ continuous usage intention of social media. CONCLUSIONS: The current research makes an in-depth study about the underlying mechanism whereby social attachment exerts impacts on social media continuous usage intentionand provides several managerial and theoretical implications. Future research directions are discussed as well.

Online Social Networks: Why We Disclose

2010 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 109-125 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hanna Krasnova ◽  
Sarah Spiekermann ◽  
Ksenia Koroleva ◽  
Thomas Hildebrand
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Online Social Networks ◽  
Information Disclosure ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Personal Information ◽  
Equation Model ◽  
Self Disclosure ◽  
Network Provider ◽  
Privacy Calculus ◽  
Privacy Risks

On online social networks such as Facebook, massive self-disclosure by users has attracted the attention of Industry players and policymakers worldwide. Despite the Impressive scope of this phenomenon, very little Is understood about what motivates users to disclose personal Information. Integrating focus group results Into a theoretical privacy calculus framework, we develop and empirically test a Structural Equation Model of self-disclosure with 259 subjects. We find that users are primarily motivated to disclose Information because of the convenience of maintaining and developing relationships and platform enjoyment. Countervailing these benefits, privacy risks represent a critical barrier to information disclosure. However, users’ perception of risk can be mitigated by their trust in the network provider and availability of control options. Based on these findings, we offer recommendations for network providers.

The effect of perceived organisational politics on organisational silence through organisational cynicism: Moderator role of perceived support

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hadi A. AL-Abrrow
Keyword(s):  
Structural Equation ◽  
Survey Design ◽  
Equation Model ◽  
Public Hospitals ◽  
Perceived Support ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Moderator Role ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Organisational Politics

AbstractThis study examines the effect of perceived organisational politics on organisational silence through the mediating role of organisational cynicism. In addition, it tests the effect of perceived support on this relationship. A quantitative (questionnaire survey) design was used to gather data from 346 employees in three public hospitals in Iraq. The structural equation model was used for data analysis. The results demonstrate that all the major hypotheses were accepted, and important role of perceived support in reversing the positive relationship between perceived organisational politics and organisational cynicism was also highlighted. Furthermore, the mediating role was clear in terms of organisational cynicism and the relationship between perceived organisational politics and organisational silence.

scholarly journals Effect of Communication, Governance and Financial Capability on Service Quality and Lecturer Performance

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Syahrir DM ◽  
Murdifin Haming ◽  
Zainuddin Rahman ◽  
Junaiddin Zakaria
Keyword(s):  
Service Quality ◽  
Structural Equation Model ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Equation Model ◽  
The Other ◽  
Financial Capability ◽  
Financial Capacity ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Insignificant Effect ◽  
Sample Data

The purpose of this study was to analyze the effect of communication, governance and financial capacity on service quality and lecturer performance. The population in this study is 2,381 lecturers in Makassar area, slovin formulation was used to obtain 342 lecturers as a sample. Data from the questionnaires were analyzed using Structural Equation Model using AMOS Ver. 18. The study found that the communication and governance positive and significant effect on service quality, financial capability has a negative and no significant effect on service quality. Communication and financial capability has a positive and significant effect on lecturers performance, while the governance positive and insignificant effect on lecturers performance. Service quality has a positive and significant effect on lecturers’ performance. Indirectly for variable i.e. service quality as a mediating role has a positive and insignificant in explaining the effect of communication on lecturer performance, Service quality as a mediating role has a positive and insignificant in explaining the effect of governance on lecturer performance. On the other section, service quality as a mediating role has a negative and significant in explaining the effect of financial capabilities on lecturer’s performance.

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