OBJECTIVE: This study involves the initial validation of the Short Schema Mode Inventory (SMI) in Italy. A total of 109 Axis II patients and 241 controls participated in the study. METHOD: Confirmatory factor analysis on SMI data to evaluate a measurement model of 14 factors using LISREL 8.80 was performed. Assessment of fit was based on CFI, NNFI, SRMR, RMSEA and Chi-square/df ratio. Reliabili...

This study aims to determine whether there is Workload (X1), Work Environment (X2), Employee Compensation (X3), Against Job Satisfaction (Y) in the Production Department of PT. Rapigra Flexible Packaging. The type research used quantitative. approach this analysis descriptive using questionnaire data on 80 respondents from a total population employees production division sampling technique nonp...

BACKGROUND When determinants of nutrition guidance practices for primary care physicians (PCPs) are identified, the key question remains: what is the mechanism of action? This knowledge is essential in order to understand how PCPs practice nutrition guidance. METHODS Mail questionnaires (result of focus-group discussions and in-depth interviews) were sent to a nationwide random sample of 1,00...

Research in MIS often focuses on the relationships among latent variables of interest that cannot be directly measured. Because of potential error in measurement and associated confounding, indirect measurement of latent constructs requires formal assessments of reliability and validity. Without these measures, resultant paths in causal implications may be inaccurate, biased, and unstable. Howe...

Support of the contract Projet d’Actions de Recherche Concertées ARC 93/98-164, of the Belgium Government, is gratefully aknowledged. Support of the project Modèles d’équations structurales et modélisation de covariances FDS 96/98, Université catholique de Louvain, is gratefully aknowledged.

Mass customization capabilities enable firms to design, produce, and deliver a high volume of differentiated products that meet specific customer needs in a timely manner and at close to mass-production prices. A critical part of mass customization is simultaneously achieving customer responsiveness, cost efficiency, and high volume production in the manufacturing system. This research describe...

This study explores the moderating effect of technology acceptance on the relationship between customer relationship management (CRM) in terms of distribution and tailor-made functions and customer loyalty in the banking industry. The author uses LISREL two-group path analysis to find the variances between high and low technology acceptance. Data collected from the customers of nine retail bank...

In the last decade, the Hispanic population of the United States has grown exponentially. The purchasing power of Hispanics in the United States exceeds $870 billion. However, little is known about Hispanics‘ informationseeking and online-purchase behaviors. This study attempts to fill the gaps in the existing literature. We develop a model of Hispanics‘ online information seeking and purchase ...

Busemeyer and Jones (1983) and Kenny and Judd (1984) proposed methods to include interactions of latent variables in structural equation models (SEMs). Despite the value of these works, their methods are limited by the required distributional assumptions, by their complexity in implementation, and by the unknown distributions of the estimators. This paper provides a framework for analyzing SEMs...

Description Extended Structural Equation Modelling (SEM). Models may be specified with reticular action model (RAM) matrices or paths,linear structural relations (LISREL) matrices or paths, or directly in matrix algebra. To increase modularity, model expectations,fit functions, and optimizers can be easily interchanged. Fit functions include full information maximum likelihood (FIML),maximum li...