Generational Differences in Informational Technology Use and Political Involvement

2008 ◽  
pp. 336-356
Author(s):  
Mack C. Shelley II ◽  
Lisa E. Thrane ◽  
Stuart W. Shulman
Keyword(s):  
Political Participation ◽  
Indirect Effects ◽  
Technology Use ◽  
Generational Differences ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Equation Model ◽  
Sample Survey ◽  
Attitudinal Differences ◽  
Social Divisions ◽  
Informational Technology

A structural equation model analysis of data from a 2003 national random sample survey (n = 478) on informational technology (IT) reveals important direct and indirect effects of generational demographic and attitudinal differences on electronic forms of political participation. Younger respondents reported more support for IT and fewer technological disadvantages, compared to older respondents. Younger respondents showed more desire for public IT availability and e-political participation, whereas older respondents preferred traditional electoral involvement. The more educated held more favorable views of IT generally and of public IT access more specifically. Better-educated respondents were more active civically, in both traditional and electronic forms of participation. Supportive technological views led to greater e-political participation and stronger interest in e-elections. Respondents with less concern and fear about IT were more likely to act as digital citizens and were more involved in e-politics and e-elections. Proponents of public IT access were more supportive of e-elections. Our model suggests that e-citizenry will compound existing social divisions as non-electronic voices are marginalized and electronic voices are amplified.

scholarly journals The Impacts of College Students’ Civic Responsibility on Civic Engagement via Online Technology: The Mediations of Civic Learning and Civic Expression

SAGE Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 215824402110319
Author(s):  
Pi-Chun Hsu ◽  
I-Hsiung Chang ◽  
Ru-Si Chen
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Civic Engagement ◽  
Indirect Effects ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Equation Model ◽  
Civic Responsibility ◽  
Civic Learning ◽  
Online Technology ◽  
Students Attitudes ◽  
The Relationship

This study focused on college students’ attitudes toward the relationship between online civic responsibility and online civic engagement and its impacts. It also investigated the mediating roles of online civic learning and online civic expression in this relationship. A survey was conducted in Taiwan, testing for indirect effects with mediated variables using a structural equation model. The study tested hypotheses about the mediations of online civic learning and online civic expression on this relationship between online civic responsibility and online civic engagement for college students. The results indicate that the mediators of online civic learning and online civic expression fully mediate the relationship between online civic responsibility and online civic engagement.

Causal Analysis of Hydrogen Acceptance

2005 ◽  
Vol 1941 (1) ◽  
pp. 115-121 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Molin
Keyword(s):  
Structural Equation Model ◽  
Indirect Effects ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
Causal Analysis ◽  
Equation Model ◽  
Factual Knowledge ◽  
Direct And Indirect Effects ◽  
Explanatory Variables ◽  
Willingness To Use

This paper presents and discusses a structural equation model on hydrogen acceptance. This model unravels the direct and indirect effects among personal characteristics, knowledge about hydrogen, perceptions, attitudes, and willingness to use hydrogen applications. In addition, indicators of differently colored information that can be provided by mass media have been included as explanatory variables. The estimated model indicates that colored information directly influences perceptions of hydrogen and indirectly influences attitudes about hydrogen and willingness to use it. In particular, negatively colored information decreases hydrogen acceptance, which cannot be counterbalanced by providing positively colored information. Furthermore, the model suggests that more factual knowledge about hydrogen increases its acceptance. The paper further discusses the likely development of hydrogen acceptance in the future and how practitioners can influence this.

Personality traits and firm innovation performance: the mediation effect of entrepreneurial innovativeness

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Chi Thi Phuong Nguyen ◽  
Duong Tuan Nguyen ◽  
Hang Thu Nguyen
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Indirect Effects ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Equation Model ◽  
Openness To Experience ◽  
Innovation Performance ◽  
Mediation Effect ◽  
Firm Innovation ◽  
Content Type

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of entrepreneurs’ personality traits on firm innovation performance through the mediation role of entrepreneurs’ innovativeness. Design/methodology/approach The data consist of 2,574 firms from a survey of small and medium-scale manufacturing enterprises (SMEs) in Vietnam, a developing and transitioning economy where SMEs constitute an integral part of the economy. The estimation results based on the structural equation model was applied to analyze the data. Findings The results indicate that an entrepreneur’s innovativeness is positively associated with his extraversion, conscientiousness, and openness to experience but negatively accompanied with his neuroticism. Besides, the three traits – openness to experience, conscientiousness and extraversion have positive indirect effects, while neuroticism has a negative indirect effect on technological improvement and new technology adoption. However, the effects of agreeableness on entrepreneurial innovativeness and firm innovation performance are insignificant. In addition, the diverse backgrounds of the entrepreneur such as education and ethnics are also found to influence his innovativeness and to have indirect effects on firm innovation performance. Originality/value This study may contribute to the immature literature on the entrepreneurial process within SMEs by presenting empirical evidence on the relationship between entrepreneurial personality traits and firm innovation with a large sample of SMEs in Vietnam, an emerging economy where SMEs constitute an integral part of the economy.

Relationships between neurocognition, social cognition and functional outcome in schizophrenia

2016 ◽  
Vol 33 (S1) ◽  
pp. S67-S67 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Mucci ◽  
S. Galderisi ◽  
A. Rossi ◽  
P. Rocca ◽  
A. Bertolino ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Cognition ◽  
Functional Outcome ◽  
Functional Capacity ◽  
Indirect Effects ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Equation Model ◽  
Direct And Indirect Effects ◽  
Neurocognitive Deficits ◽  
Life Functioning

IntroductionThe inter-relationships of neurocognition, social cognition, residual psychopathology and real-life functioning are poorly understood. A large multicenter study was carried out by the Italian Network for Research on Psychoses to model relationships between neurocognitive deficits, psychopathology and real-life functioning, taking into account the role of functional capacity and social cognition.MethodsA structural equation model was used to investigate direct and indirect effects of neurocognition and psychopathology on real-life functioning. Social cognition and functional capacity were modeled as mediators.ResultsIn 921 patients with schizophrenia, neurocognition had both direct and indirect effects, through functional capacity and social cognition, on real-life functioning. Neurocognition predicted to a large extent social cognition on which depression and disorganization had a modest effect. Social cognition showed a significant direct impact on real-life functioning.ConclusionOur results support a strong link between neurocognition and functional outcome, independent of psychopathology. Social cognition accounted for unique incremental variance in real-life functioning.Disclosure of interestThe authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

scholarly journals Transformational entrepreneurship and its effect on readiness for change, psychological capital, and employee performance: evidence from an Indonesian bank

F1000Research ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 887
Author(s):  
Michael Gunawan ◽  
Retno Wijayanti ◽  
Febri Nila Chrisanty ◽  
Budi W. Soetjipto ◽  
Ani Wahyu Rachmawati ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Indirect Effects ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Psychological Capital ◽  
Employee Performance ◽  
Dynamic Environment ◽  
Equation Model ◽  
Study Data ◽  
Readiness For Change ◽  
Direct And Indirect Effects ◽  
Entrepreneurial Activities

Continuing failures of financial capitalism across borders have led corporation to develop a more balanced economic growth model of transformational entrepreneurship that emphasises both short-term economic and longer-term social impacts. The model encourages entrepreneurial activities that bring major changes in the related markets and industries, as well as changes in society and culture. At the corporate level, transformational entrepreneurship prepares employees for any potential changes induced by a dynamic environment; it also improves the psychological capital of individual employees, and effective transformational entrepreneurship can eventually accelerate performance. The purpose of this study is to investigate (1) the direct and indirect effects of transformational entrepreneurship on readiness for change, psychological capital and employee performance, and (2) how the effects to readiness for change and psychological capital influence employee performance. The study data were collected using questionnaires completed by employees in 257 branches of a state-owned bank with locations throughout Indonesia. The data were analysed using the structural equation model. The results show that transformational entrepreneurship significantly and positively influences readiness for change, psychological capital, and employee performance and that readiness for change and psychological capital significantly and positively influences employee performance. Additionally, the effect of transformational entrepreneurship on employee performance is more significant if it is related to psychological capital than to readiness for change or to aspects of employee performance unrelated to transformational entrepreneurship. These findings enrich our understanding of transformational entrepreneurship and its value related to the direct and indirect effects on variables such as readiness for change, psychological capital and employee performance.

scholarly journals Development of the growth mindset scale: the evidence and measurement of Chinese context

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
shan chen
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Confirmatory Factor Analysis ◽  
Indirect Effects ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Equation Model ◽  
Growth Mindset ◽  
Direct And Indirect Effects ◽  
Chinese Context ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
One Way Anova

To improve the efficiency of 21st century learning and promote achievements, this paper studies the influence of the growth mindset on students and teachers. This study aims to develop the growth mindset scale with the evidence of structural validity, the measurement of direct and indirect effects of the Chinese context. To achieve the research objective, this study investigated 654 participants, including 321 students at different learning stages and 266 teachers from primary and secondary schools. In the investigation, using SPSS 25.0 and Mplus8.3, we conducted exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), structural equation model (SEM), mediation analysis, and one-way ANOVA method to achieve the study aim. <br>

scholarly journals Modelling consumer’s intention to use iot devices: role of technophilia

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 612
Author(s):  
Nusrat Jahan ◽  
Md. Abu Hosen Shawon ◽  
Farzana Sadia ◽  
Dilara Khanom Nitu ◽  
Md. Enam Kobir Ribon ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Structural Equation ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Equation Model ◽  
Partial Least Square ◽  
Least Square ◽  
Sample Survey ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Iot Devices

<p><span>The present study has been conducted to examine whether skills and general technology-related value (GTV) required to operate the internet of things (IoT). This study also investigates is there any effect of technophilia to adopt IoT. The research method we use in this quantitative study was the sample survey. For investigating results, 352 surveys were conducted where 26 surveys were led through online and 292 surveys were distributed to different age groups. The proposed model was examined using partial least square structural equation model where the results revealed that IoT skills and General knowledge on technology directly contribute to technophilia which covers behavioural, emotional, and cognitive aspects. That is if people have a fascination for new technologies then they are willing to use IoT.</span></p>

scholarly journals Effects of Self-compassion on Diurnal Cortisol Pattern via Positive Affect in Colorectal Cancer Survivors

Mindfulness ◽  
2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rainbow T. H. Ho ◽  
Ted C. T. Fong ◽  
Adrian H. Y. Wan
Keyword(s):  
Colorectal Cancer ◽  
Positive Affect ◽  
Cancer Survivors ◽  
Emotional Distress ◽  
Indirect Effects ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Equation Model ◽  
Diurnal Cortisol ◽  
Colorectal Cancer Survivors ◽  
Self Compassion

Abstract Objectives Colorectal cancer survivors are at risks of emotional distress and dysregulated diurnal cortisol rhythms. Dispositional self-compassion has been linked with better psychological adjustment and greater positive affect. This study evaluated the associations between self-compassion and the diurnal cortisol pattern, and the role of positive affect and emotional distress in mediating this association, in cancer patients. Methods This longitudinal study recruited 127 Chinese colorectal cancer survivors, who completed assessments for self-compassion, positive affect, emotional distress, and naturalistic salivary cortisol at baseline. The participants completed follow-up assessments for affect and emotional distress after 2 months (time 2) and the diurnal cortisol pattern after 8 months (time 3). Bootstrapped mediation analysis analyzed the direct and indirect effects of self-compassion on the diurnal cortisol pattern via positive affect and emotional distress. Results A structural equation model with latent factors of self-compassion, self-criticism, and emotional distress provided an adequate fit to the data. The direct effects of self-compassion and self-criticism on the diurnal cortisol pattern were not significant (p = 0.11–0.50). Positive affect, but not emotional distress, at time 2 significantly predicted steeper diurnal cortisol slopes at time 3 (β = − 0.22, SE = 0.08, p < 0.01). Self-compassion and self-criticism showed significant negative and positive indirect effects on time 3 diurnal cortisol slopes via time 2 positive affect, respectively. Conclusions Our findings support indirect linkages between self-compassion and steeper diurnal cortisol slopes via positive affect. Positive affect may mediate temporal relationships between self-compassion and neuroendocrine functioning in colorectal cancer survivors.

Linking proactive behavior and constructive deviance to affective commitment and turnover intention: the mediating role of idea championing

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Guillaume R. M. Déprez ◽  
Adalgisa Battistelli ◽  
Christian Vandenberghe
Keyword(s):  
Indirect Effects ◽  
Turnover Intention ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Affective Commitment ◽  
Inhibitory Effect ◽  
Equation Model ◽  
Facilitatory Effect ◽  
Proactive Behavior ◽  
Deviant Behaviors ◽  
Mediating Role

Abstract This paper explores how proactive behavior and constructive deviance relate to affective organizational commitment and turnover intention through idea championing. Based on a two-wave study (N = 310), structural equation model analyses revealed that constructive deviance had an inhibitory effect and proactive behavior a facilitatory effect on idea championing. In turn, idea championing was related to increased affective commitment and reduced turnover intention. The analyses of indirect effects further indicated that proactive behavior and constructive deviance had opposite indirect effects on affective commitment and turnover intention. This research underlines the importance of acting proactively upstream rather than deviating from the norm to promote innovation and build employee loyalty to the organization. Finally, this study also indicates that proactive and constructive deviant behaviors are conceptually different and exert opposite effects despite their similar orientation toward innovation and change.

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