Structural equations and causation

Structural Equations and Causation

Nursing Workloads and Psychological Empowerment in Hospitals: Structural Equations Modeling

Background: The high workload of nurses in hospitals has been identified as a patient safety and worker stress problem. Psychological empowerment is a motivational concept demonstrated in four dimensions: meaning, competence, self-determination, and impact. Objective: This study investigated the relationship between nurses’ workloads and psychological emp...

Causation and Mental Causation

How the mind of a human being can determine the bodily spirits [i.e., the fluids in the nerves, muscles, etc.] in producing voluntary actions, being only a thinking substance. For it appears that all determination of movement is produced by the pushing of the thing being moved, by the manner in which it is pushed by that which moves it, or else by the qualification and figure of the surface of ...

Structural equations and beyond

Structural causal pluralism and underspecification in the expression of causation

An implicit question in much of the research on the linguistic expression of causation is how the latter might be related to the underlying concept of CAUSE. A better understanding of this relationship is important if we are to explain how the syntax-semantics interface is related to non-linguistic thought. In this research we examine a set of phenomena that suggest that the relationship betwee...