Structural Relationship Model Research Articles

Investigating and structural modeling energy literacy of high school students in Taiwan

The study investigated a sample population of 675 students drawn from high schools nationwide, to grasp how literate they were about energy issues and to construct accordingly, a model that depicted the interplay among their knowledge, attitudes, self-efficacy, and behaviors. Students were found to possess better knowledge about scientific basics than related issues of energy, attitudes favoring renewable energy underlaid by relatively anthropocentric environmental value, and energy-saving habits. In explaining personal energy-related behaviors, the most influential component was attitude, and knowledge had little effect. Males were more knowledgeable about energy but held a less positive attitude than females, whose energy literacy components were also more strongly interconnected in the structural relationship model. Implications and other findings including the role of family behavior are discussed.

湿地自然保护区旅游者环境教育感知研究——以盐城丹顶鹤、麋鹿国家自然保护区为例

PDF HTML阅读 XML下载 导出引用 引用提醒 湿地自然保护区旅游者环境教育感知研究——以盐城丹顶鹤、麋鹿国家自然保护区为例 DOI: 10.5846/stxb201404290856 作者: 作者单位: 南京师范大学地理科学学院,南京师范大学地理科学学院,南京师范大学地理科学学院,南京师范大学地理科学学院,南京师范大学地理科学学院 作者简介: 通讯作者: 中图分类号: 基金项目: 国家自然科学基金项目(41271149);江苏高校优势学科建设工程资助项目(PAPD) Tourist environmental education in wetland reserves: a case study of the Red- crowned cranes and David's deer National Reserves in Yancheng, China Author: Affiliation: College of Geographic Science,Nanjing Normal University,College of Geographic Science,Nanjing Normal University,College of Geographic Science,Nanjing Normal University,College of Geographic Science,Nanjing Normal University,College of Geographic Science,Nanjing Normal University Fund Project: 摘要 | 图/表 | 访问统计 | 参考文献 | 相似文献 | 引证文献 | 资源附件 | 文章评论 摘要:环境教育是当前生态旅游研究中的热点论题。基于生态旅游动机、环境教育途径、环境教育感知及环境教育效果4 个结构变量,以生态旅游发展处于起步阶段的盐城丹顶鹤保护区和处于稳定发展阶段的盐城麋鹿保护区为例,构建湿地自然保护区旅游者环境教育感知影响结构关系模型,深入分析不同生命周期阶段生态旅游地旅游者环境教育感知分异及其影响因素。结果表明:(1)生态旅游动机、环境教育途径、环境教育感知均对环境教育效果产生正向影响。丹顶鹤保护区生态旅游动机对环境教育效果产生显著正向影响,环境教育途径、环境教育感知对环境教育效果均产生正向影响;麋鹿保护区生态旅游动机、环境教育途径均对环境教育效果产生正向影响,环境教育感知对环境教育效果产生显著正向影响。(2)在生态旅游动机、环境教育途径、环境教育感知3 个分维度上,丹顶鹤保护区分别以一般生态旅游动机、常规环境教育途径、表层环境教育感知为主,麋鹿保护区则分别以严格生态旅游动机、专门环境教育途径、深度环境教育感知为主。(3)不同生命周期阶段生态旅游地游客环境教育效果存在差异。丹顶鹤保护区游客环境教育效果主要集中在态度、行为效果上,意识效果为辅,知识、技能效果作用较小;麋鹿保护区游客环境教育效果则以知识、态度效果为主,行为、技能、意识效果均起辅助作用。 Abstract:Environmental education is a hot topic in the study of ecological tourism at present. This paper uses four structural variables (tourist motivation, educational methods, tourist perceptions, and the educational effect of tourist experiences) to build a structural relationship model of behavior, knowledge, attitudes, consciousness of the environment, and skills reflecting their impact on tourist perceptions of environmental education in wetland natural reserves. Based on the different life cycle stages of wetland nature reserve presence at the two destinations, The Red-crowned cranes and David's Deer National Reserves in Yancheng City, Jiangsu Province, China, the study considers the factors influencing the perception of tourist environmental education at ecological tourism destinations. It was found that with respect to a tourist's perception of the different life cycle stages of wetland nature reserves, basic factors influenced their acceptance of the importance of environmental education. Travel motivation, educational methods and tourist perceptions all had positive impacts on the educational effect of ecological experiences. At the initial life stage of the Red-Crowned Cranes National Reserve, for example, tourism motivation, the educational methods used, and tourist perceptions all had a significant positive influence on the impact of the environmental education received during visits. At the stable development stage of the David's Deer National Reserve, tourism motivation, tourist perceptions, and educational methods again had a positive influence on the impact of environmental education. Thus, ecotourism motivation and environmental education methods have significant positive effects on the perception of the value of environmental education in both the Red-crowned cranes and David's Deer National Reserves. Second with respect to the influencing mechanisms at the different life cycle stages of wetland nature reserves, two-dimensional factors had different influences. In regard to the three dimensions of tourism motivation, educational methods and tourist perceptions, the Red-Crowned Cranes National Reserve appeared to be primarily affected by a general ecological motivation held by tourists, by conventional environmental education methods, and by the impact of surface environmental education perceptions. The educational value of a visit to the David's Deer National Reserve is primarily affected by the strict ecological tourism motivations held by tourists, by special environmental education methods, and by the deep environmental education perceptions held by tourists. Third, these effects had different impacts on models of the different life cycle stages at the two ecological tourist destinations. The environmental education impacts of visits to the Red-Crowned Cranes National Reserve were strongest for the attitude effect and the behavior effect, while the consciousness effect is subsidiary, and the knowledge effect and skill effects had the lowest influence. The environmental education effects from visiting the David's Deer National Reserve were strongest for the knowledge effect and attitude effect, while the behavior effect, skill effect, and consciousness effect were subsidiary. Fourth, the perception of the value of environmental education by ecological tourism was affected by many heterogeneous factors. Through ecotourism environmental education, tourist destinations are able to change the will, skills, and behavior of tourists that participate in environmental protection;thereby improving the impact of environmental education on tourists. 参考文献 相似文献 引证文献

The Influence of Spiritual Leadership in Promoting Organizational Citizenship Behaviors of Employees

The present study aimed at exploring the structural relationship model between spiritual leadership and organizational citizenship behaviour by considering the role of organizational spirituality as a mediator. Research methods in terms of objective and data collection were developmental-applied and descriptive-correlation type, respectively. Statistical population of this study was consist of employees the governmental hospitals of the Iranshahr city that their education level was diploma and higher (483 employee). Sample study was 170 employee that selected by ratio-class method. Data were collected by three standard questionnaires: spiritual leadership, organizational spirituality and organizational citizenship behaviour that have internal consistency 0.87, 0.89 and 0.83, respectively based on Cronbach's Alfa method. Data from the questionnaires were analysed using path analysis in LISREL software. Findings showed that spiritual leadership has significant effect on organizational spirituality; organizational spirituality has significant effect on organizational citizenship behaviour and spiritual leadership has significant effect on organizational citizenship behaviour.

초등학생의 교사애착, 또래애착, 자기격려, 진로자기효능감과 진로성숙도간의 구조적 관계

본 연구는 초등학생의 교사애착, 또래애착, 자기격려, 진로자기효능감 그리고 진로성숙도 간의 구조적 관계를 알아보고자 하였다. 이를 위해 충북 청주에 소재한 초등학교 6학년 학생 220명을 대상으로 하였다. 본 연구를 위해서 교사애착, 또래애착, 자기격려, 진로자기효능감, 진로성숙도 검사를 사용하였다. 수집된 자료를 가지고 확인적 요인분석과 구조방정식 모형 분석을 실시하였으며 최종 모델의 적합도 지수는 CFI=.957, TLI=.951, RMSEA=.049로 나타났다. 본 연구의 주된 연구결과는 다음과 같다. 첫째, 교사애착과 또래애착은 자기격려, 진로자기효능감, 진로성숙도에 모두 정적인 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 둘째, 구조방정식 모형 분석을 실시한 결과 자기격려와 진로자기효능감은 교사애착과 또래애착의 진로성숙도 관계에서 매개효과가 있는 것을 확인하였다. The purpose of this study was to identify the structural relationship model between teacher attachment, peer attachment, self-encouragement, career self-efficacy, and career maturity and to analyze the direct or indirect effect among latent variables. 220 elementary school students in a Cheongju were sampled. Four measurement instruments were employed; the Teacher Attachment Peer Attachment Scale, Self-encouragement Scale, the Career self-efficacy and the Career Maturity scale. The Collected data were analyzed by correlation and regression alalysis with SPSS program and Structural Equation major Modeling(SEM) and fitness of the final model were CFI=.957, TLI=.951, RMSEA=.049. The results of this study were as follows: First, there were significant positive correlations among teacher attachment, peer attachment, self-encouragement, career self-efficacy, and career maturity. Second, according to the structural equation modeling, the results showed that self-encouragement and career self-efficacy mediated the effect of teacher attachment, peer attachment on career maturity.

Motivational and cognitive test-taking strategies and their influence on test performance in mathematics

A structural equation model of relationships among testing-related motivation variables (test value, effort, self-efficacy, and test anxiety), test-taking strategies (test tactics and metacognitive strategies), gender, and math test performance were examined with a sample of 10th graders (N = 438; 182 males and 256 females). In general, motivation variables influenced the use of test-taking strategies and demonstrated stronger impacts on math performance than did test-taking strategies. Gender differences were found in self-efficacy and test anxiety. With a few surprising but culturally relevant results that warrant further investigation, the current study extended previous works on antecedents of academic achievement to testing situations within the self-regulated learning theory.

Development of Indicators of Cyberbullying among Youths in Songkhla Province

The objectives of this study were to develop indicators and to test the goodness of fit of the structural relationship model of indicators of cyberbullying among youths in Songkhla Province. The study was conducted with 480 youths, and confirmatory factor analysis was performed.The results of the study revealed that the indicators of cyberbullying among youths in Songkhla Province consisted of five factors with twenty-four indicators. The factor with the highest weight was slandering (b=0.90) consisting of five indicators, followed by revealing other people’s personal secrets (b=0.89) consisting of five indicators; identity theft (b=0.88) consisting of five indicators; deleting or blocking others from the group (b=0.65) consisting of four indicators; and flaming (b=0.17) consisting of five indicators. The linear structural model of cyberbullying among youths was in statistically significant congruence with empirical data.

Linear Structural Cross-Group Relationship between Social Capital and National Competitiveness

Research on socioeconomic phenomenon by social capital has increased noticeably in recent years. However, while some literature is available on organizational sociology, political sociology and economic sociology, little information is available on macroeconomic and management. Thus, this work used the reports of World Value Survey, World Economic Forum, and International Management Development, applying the linear structural relation model to assess how social capital affects the national competitiveness. Overall, the results found that the accumulation of social capital can improve not only the other capitals but also the national competitiveness in a particular country. Thus, this work suggests that every country should enhance the development of social capital, thereby effectively improve national competitiveness.

Structural modeling relationships between satellite imagery interpretive features and forest taxation parameters

Methodological foundations of space monitoring andthematic processing of satellite images of the forestare proposed in this paper. The methods of systems analysis for researching of satellite imagery thematic processing are used. We developed the models of structural relationships and properties of forests and satellite images interpretive features in different spectral bands of the survey and detailed images. In addition, we proposed criterion for alternatives evaluating of thematic processing. Production rules for interpretation of forest inventory parameters is constructed.

Exploring lean healthcare practice and supply chain innovation for Malaysian healthcare industry

Lean and supply chain are two quality practices which are the most effective business improvement techniques that focus on continuous improvement process. They are adopted to improve business process, reduce waste, reduce defects, reduce cycle times, fast delivery at the minimal cost and accelerate the process in identifying the best solution practices for ensuring excellence in operational and service management. The purpose of this study is to explore lean healthcare practice adopted by Malaysian healthcare industry and the relationship between lean healthcare practices and supply chain innovation performance. Four dimensions of lean healthcare practice (leadership, employee involvement, organisational culture, customer focus) were determined to have a significant and positive direct relationship with supply chain innovation performance efforts. Furthermore, through this analysis, a structural relationship model using structural equation modelling (SEM) has been proposed. The research hypotheses are being developed based on the proposed conceptual model and reviewed. Finally, the paper study culminates with suggested future research work.

TECHNOLOGICAL POSTURE AND CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY: EFFECTS ON INNOVATION PERFORMANCE

Interest in the relationship between innovation and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has grown considerably in the last few years. The aim of this paper is to analyze the relationship between a company’s technological posture and CSR, as one of the main determinants of technological innovation performance. From knowledge-based and stakeholders’ theories a structural equations model of relationships was established and statistically tested through Smart PLS on a sample of Spanish firms from the renewable energy sector. Our findings suggest that in these kinds of industries, leadership postures (proactive strategies) lead firms to engage in high levels of CSR commitment. Moreover, CSR activities are positively related to innovation performance, which suggests that the higher the level of a firm’s engagement in CSR activities, the greater the possibility of achieving further innovation derived from the exploitation of its stakeholders’ knowledge.

ISO 26000 efforts and corporate social responsibility performance in Malaysian automotive industry

The automotive industry is an important industry in manufacturing sector. This study shows a model to conduct an empirical study in Malaysian automotive industry in order to improve CSR performance. The aim of this study is to review structural analysis of ISO 26000 efforts and CSR performance in Malaysian automotive industry. This study is to review ISO 26000 standards effort (recognising social responsibility and stakeholder identification and engagement). The CSR performance in this study is focused on two main performance; environmental performance and social performance. This study also proposed structural relationship model between ISO 26000 efforts and CSR performance in Malaysian automotive industry. Based on the proposed research model, research hypotheses are being developed. This paper culminates with suggested future research work.

Verification of the Structural Relationship Model of Attitudes about Multicultural Families to Perfectionism, Self-Discrepancy, Prejudice, External Motivation

The purpose of the current study was to examine the effects of perfectionism on attitudes about multicultural families and to explore whether factors such as self-discrepancy, prejudice, external motivation mediate the relationship between perfectionism and attitudes about multicultural families. Fo...

Indicators of Ethical Leadership for School Principals in Thailand

This study was aimed at developing ethical leadership indicators for school principals, in Thailand, by examining consistent with the confirmatory factor analysis, the empirical data of the “goodness of fit” of the structural relationship model. There were two groups of research samples involved in this study, namely: seven educational experts; and 826 schools. They were chosen by utilizing the multi-staged random sampling technique. The instruments used were interview questions and a questionnaire. The results showed that ethical leadership was composed of five primary factors; 19 secondary factors; and 69 indicators. The affecting factors were ranked in descending order. These were responsibility; fairness; trust; disposition; and empowerment respectively. There were 13 indicators related to responsibility; 11 indicators associated with fairness; 17 indicators connected to trust; 15 indicators linked to disposition; and 13 indicators related to empowerment. These findings had implications for Thailand's educational institutions since, in the last decade, they had failed to develop ethical values amongst the younger generation. This might have been due to the rapid pace of modernization.

Modeling of photodegradation kinetics of aromatic pollutants in water matrix

In this study photodegradation kinetics of aromatic pollutants in water was simulated by combining two approaches: kinetic modeling and structural-relationship modeling. Semiempirical model based on Lambert's law (“LL model”) was used to determine quantum yields (Φ) of 28 single-benzene ring pollutants. QSAR/QSPR modeling, using Genetic Algorithm (GA) and multiple linear regression analysis (MLRA) to select the descriptors and to generate the best correlation models, was applied to establish structure–property relationship of molar absorption coefficient (ɛ) and quantum yield (Φ). In both cases the most predictive models consistent of 4 variables, i.e. descriptors, possessing the good ratios of the number of variables and the predictive ability to avoid overfitting. It was found that ɛ depends on the overall number of bonds, particular atom-centered fragment related to substituents possessing double and single bonded heteroatoms (O or N) to C atom, as well as the shape and size of the molecule and polarizibility. Molecular symmetry was shown as the most influential factor toward Φ. The applied GA-MLRA approach using DRAGON generated descriptors yielded good results, which was also confirmed by external validation. “LL model” simulation for two additional single-benzene ring pollutants, using predicted Φ and ɛ by QSAR/QSPR, slightly deviated from the experimental results (RMSD ≤ 0.75%).

Integrate Reengineering and TQM: An Attempt to Redefine Reformation

This study examines the structural relationships between TQM, Reengineering, Operational Excellence in downstream and upstream sectors, Reformation, and sustainable community development program. A good understanding of how oil and gas industry should integrate mainstreaming the approach to sustainable community development into policymaking. Sustainable community development should be implemented by considering the links between change management through TQM and reengineering, operational excellence applications, and the real reformation. Recognizing that contributions of reformation (via the amendment of law of the Republic of Indonesia No. 22/2001 concerning oil and natural gas) in the sustainable community development is a key component in the Indonesia’s economy reform and recovery. Empirical evidences find that seven causal paths specified in the hypothesized model were found to be positive and statistically significant. Furthermore empirical results suggest that reengineering has a positive and significant indirect effect on sustainable community development program through its direct effect on operational excellence in supply chain; and reformation. The result also shows that a complete model fit and the acceptable parameter level which indicate the overall parameter are good fit between the hypothesized model and the observed data. By concentrating on a single industry (oil and gas) is that SEM specification of the structural relationship model between six constructs can be more complete and specific because unique characteristics of the oil and gas industry can be included (upstream and downstream chain activities). Finally, the particular design of the research and the findings suggest that the structural model of the study has a great potential for replication to business as well as public sectors.

A review of object representation based on local features

Object representation based on local features is a topical subject in the domain of image understanding and computer vision. We discuss the defects of global features in present methods and the advantages of local features in object recognition, and briefly explore state-of-the-art recognition methods using local features, especially the main approaches of local feature extraction and object representation. To clearly explain these methods, the problem of local feature extraction is divided into feature region detection, feature region description, and feature space optimization. The main components and merits of these steps are presented. Technologies for object presentation are classified into three types: vector space, sliding window, and structure relationship models. Future development trends are discussed briefly.

Development Model of Elderly Health Care Behavior with Public Mind

In order to promote the elderly peoples to have high competency for self heal care and take care other old person with public mind, it needs to understand factors that is affecting to their health behavior. Therefore, the study on elderly health care knowledge, supportive factor, psychological factors and inspiration of public mind will make us more understand the way the elderly people not just only look after themselves but they also are able to assist to help the other elderly people. Moreover, this finding will be useful for our global old citizen to meet the better life quality. The objective was to develop the structural relationship model of elderly health care knowledge, psychological trait, psychological state, and social support affecting through inspiration of public mind to health behavior. The populations were 125,037 elderly peoples in Ratchaburi Province in the year of B.E. 2556. The sample group of 400 elderly peoples were sampling with Multi-stage random sampling technique. Questionnaire was used as research tool that was examined for content validity by 5 experts and it was tried out with the group that was not sample group. The reliability in aspects of elderly health care knowledge, psychological trait, psychological state, supportive factor, inspiration of public mind and health behavior were 0.898, 0.855, 0.878, 0.899, 0.919 and 0.920 respectively. Analysis of causal relationship model was verified with Structural Equation Model (SEM) by using LISREL version 8.72. The results revealed that the developed structural equation model of elderly health care behavior with public mind of elderly people in Ratchaburi Province was congruent to empirical data by considering on the values of X2 / df = 1.609 was lesser than 5, RMSEA= 0.043 ( DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2013.v4n6p141

Understanding the External Pressure and Behavior of Commercial Banks’ Environmental Risk Management: An Empirical Study Undertaken in the Yangtze River Delta of China

The present study employed a quantitative survey to ascertain whether the external pressure of environmental risk management (ERM) on commercial banks was a contributing factor to their ERM behavior. Data was obtained using questionnaires from 204 branches of commercial banks located in the Yangtze River Delta of China. The relationship between external pressure and behavior was tested using a linear structural relations model through path analysis. The results revealed that external pressure of ERM was significantly and positively related to the behavior and that pressure from governmental regulations was the most important contributing factor in the passive feedback behavior and preventive behavior of commercial banks. The pressure from markets was the most important contributing factor in banks' active participation behavior; the pressure from community and NGOs was the most important contributing factor in their enthusiastic behavior.

The Secrets of Learning Cointegration & Safety Rules for Spread Training

The paper offers adaptation of cointegration analysis for statistical arbitrage. Cointegration is a structural relationship model that relies on dynamic correction towards the equilibrium. The model is ultimately linear: when relationships are decoupled, the forecast of individual price follows a linear trend over the long term. 'Error correction' terminology does not apply to forecasting and therefore, is misleading. Dynamic correction towards the equilibrium realises as a mean-reverting feature of the spread generated by the cointegrated relationship. Quality of mean-reversion defines suitability for statistical arbitrage and is evaluated by fitting to the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process. Trade design cannot rely on standard cointegration tests due to their low power; their formulation is incompatible with the GBM process for asset price. However, the econometric specification of equilibrium correction is compatible with the OU process fit. There are two technical appendices. Appendix A collects time series decompositions and derivations frequently omitted in presentation of the equilibrium correction. Appendix B discusses the common issues of equity pairs trading that relies on simple cointegration.

Maximum likelihood estimation of linear structural relationship model parameters assuming the slope is known

A number of statistical techniques have been proposed by many authors to estimate the parameters in a linear structural relationship model, but only few papers discuss the precision of these estimators. In this study, we derive the maximum likelihood estimate (MLE) of the parameters by assuming the slope parameter is known. is estimated separately by a nonparametric method and is assumed to be known when other parameters are estimated by an MLE. We obtain closed-form estimates of parameters as well as the variance-covariance matrix. Using a simulation study and a real-world example we show that the estimated values of the parameters are unbiased and consistent.