The aims of this study were: to assess cognitive and mood problems, perceived social support and coping strategies in adolescence and early adulthood; to understand how coping strategies are related to age, gender and years of schooling; to identify possible stable and modifiable predictors of cognitive and mood problems adopting LISREL software. The participants were 517 adolescents and young ...

The author proposes an alternative estimation technique for latent variable interactions and quadraties. Available techniques for specifying these variables in structural equation models require adding variables or constraint equations that can produce specification tedium and errors or estimation difficulties. The proposed technique avoids these difficulties and may be useful for EQS, LISREL 7...

Technology development and the fast changing market have resulted in the life cycle of high-tech products becoming shorter. Enterprises must therefore continuously conduct innovative research to meet customer demand and increase industrial competitiveness. Innovative product research and management have become the most important activities in enterprise survival and sustainability. This study i...

The purpose of this study is to understand factors that affect Blog continuance intention. The expectation-confirmation theory (ECT) model is adapted with perceived enjoyment and user involvement. Data was collected via an online survey which results 430 valid samples. The research model was assessed by structural equation modeling (SEM) as performed in LISREL program. The results show that con...

There has been a growing interest in looking upon the MNC as a differentiated network in the sense that subsidiaries have access to different types of resources and therefore perform differently in its market-place and within the MNC. Yet, even though subsidiaries are the object of intense interests, remarkably little have been written about assessment of subsidiary performance. In short, the p...

In This Issue Bert R. Boyce IN MEMORIAM Jean Tague-Sutcliffe, 1931-1996 Mike Nelson RESEARCH Design and Implementation of Automatic Indexing for Information Retrieval with Arabic Documents Ismaii Hmeidi, Ghassan Kanaan, and Martha Evens Information Using Likeness Measures Martin FrickP Types and Levels of Collaboration in Interdisciplinary Research in the Sciences Jian Qin, F. W. Lancaster, and...