0092-6566/$ see front matter 2012 Elsevier Inc. A http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2012.10.008 ⇑ Corresponding author. Fax: +1 561 297 2160. E-mail address: [email protected] (R.A. Sherman) Using the Riverside Situational Q-Sort (RSQ), this study investigates the relationship between personality, gender and individual differences in perceptions (or construals) of four situations experienced by un...

This article presents the results of a study exploring travellers’ preferences for middle-distance travel using Q-methodology. Respondents rank-ordered 42 opinion statements regarding travel choice and motivations for travel in general and for car and public transport as alternative travel modes. By-person factor analysis revealed four distinct preference segments for middle-distance travel: (1...

After years of neglect, situations are beginning to be taken seriously in psychological research. Two recent steps include the development of a theoretical framework, the Situation Construal Model (SCM), and an assessment tool, the Riverside Situational Q-sort (RSQ). The SCM describes behavior as a function not only of direct effects of personality and situations, but also as a function of cons...

Q methodology is seldom used by academics and practitioners in the field of administrative ethics, but it has important potential for empirical studies. Q offers a procedure and conceptual framework with which to study subjectivity in the social context. It has the advantage of bringing marginalized viewpoints to the fore but also has some drawbacks. The appendix provides a basic introduction t...

—Researchers have used various qualitative and quantitative methods to deal with subjectivity in studying people’s recreation experiences. Q methodology has been the most eff ective approach for analyzing both qualitative and quantitative aspects of experience, including attitudes or perceptions. Th e method is composed of two main components—Q sorting and Q factor analysis—and allows for the s...

A new method for assessing situations is employed to examine the association between situational similarity, personality, and behavioral consistency across ecologically representative contexts. On 4 occasions across 4 weeks, 202 undergraduate participants (105 women, 97 men) wrote descriptions of a situation they had experienced the previous day. In addition, they rated its psychological featur...

Performing a cost-benefit analysis (CBA) is an important initial step in planning and implementing IT investments. However, creating an accurate and useful CBA for complex IT investments (such as enterprise systems implementations) is difficult due to uncertainty in the expected benefits, costs, risks, timing, and deliverables of these frequently changing projects. This paper reports on a Q-met...

The well-known Wahba Problem [1] is a non-linear, weighted least-squares problem that seeks to obtain the optimal attitude matrix from a set of at least two independent vector measurements. The most common technique used to solved the Wahba problem is the so-called q-method, developed by Davenport and documented in [2]. The q-method rearranges the Wahba performance index into a quadratic perfor...

Information privacy has gained increased attention in recent years. This paper focuses on a particular aspect of privacy, i.e., personal information privacy. In this paper a conceptual framework is developed based Westin’s theory of Personal Information Privacy (PIP). Concourse theory and Q-methodology was used alongside the literature and the New Zealand Privacy Act 1993 to develop a Q-sort qu...

Wikis have a growing reputation on the open Internet for producing evolving stores of shared knowledge. However, such democratic systems are often treated with suspicion within corporations for management, legal, social, and other reasons. This article describes a field study of a corporate Wiki that has been developed to capture, and make available, organisational knowledge in a large manufact...