Recent methodological developments building on partial least squares (PLS) techniques and related ideas have significantly contributed to bridging the gap between factor-based and composite-based structural equation modeling (SEM) methods. PLS-SEM is extensively used in the field of e-collaboration, as well as in many other fields where multivariate statistical analyses are employed. We compare...

With technology advanced and flourishing of wired or wireless networks in our daily life, privacy and trustability of transaction media are highly cherished value. Individuals often make choices in which they surrender a certain degree of privacy in exchange for outcomes that are perceived to be worth of the risk of information disclosure. This research attempts to facilitate understandings of ...

The purpose of this research is to examine the relationship of self-compassion and internet addiction. Participants were 261 university students who completed a questionnaire package that included the Selfcompassion Scale and the Online Cognition Scale. The hypothesis model was tested through structural equation modeling. In correlation analysis, self-kindness, common humanity, and mindfulness ...

Statistical procedures based on the general linear model (GLM) share much in common with one another, both conceptually and practically. The use of structural equation modeling path diagrams as tools for teaching the GLM as a body of connected statistical procedures is presented. A heuristic data set is used to demonstrate a variety of univariate and multivariate statistics as structural models...

In structural equation modeling, researchers often use path diagrams to represent their models graphically. Path diagrams enable you to visualize the conceptual models behind the research and to depict statistical results in an intuitive way. In SAS/STAT® 13.1, the CALIS procedure produces high-quality graphical output of path diagrams from model specifications. You can simply use the PLOTS=PAT...

Problem Statement: Because research on self-compassion is novel, to examine the relationships between this construct and several psychological and educational variables is a necessity. One of these educational variables is achievement goals. Purpose of Study: The purpose of this study is to examine the relationships between self-compassion and achievement goal orientations. Methods: The sample ...

Abstract: The structure of bus network is very significant for bus system. To evaluate the performance of the structure of bus network, indicators basing on graph theory and complex network theory are proposed. Three forms of matrices comprising linestation matrix, weighted adjacency matrix and adjacency matrix under space P are used to represent the bus network. The paper proposes a shift powe...

abstract in this paper,using a structural decomposition analysis (sda) and the latest available input-output tables we investigate the sources of labor productivity growth in norway, south korea and iran. then, the contribution of each source in the growth of labor productivity is discussed. the results show that among six factors, value added coefficient is the most influencing factoracross al...

this study aims to delve into the unobservable dimensions of deciding and acting in a pragmatically significant speech event. utilizing a discourse completion test questionnaire, it seeks to find out the structure and pragmatic functions that lie behind efl learners’ choice of specific wording while engaged in performing a recurrent speech act in iran i.e. compliments. to this aim, 30 efl learn...