Article history: Received 10 May 2015 Received in revised form 19 January 2016 Accepted 19 January 2016 Available online 3 February 2016 Hundreds of studies have shown that, in people, cognitive abilities overlap yielding anunderlying ‘g’ factor, which explainsmuch of the variance.We assessed individual differences in cognitive abilities in 68 border collies to determine the structure of intell...

Gender stereotypes of Russians toward the Internet were investigated, using multiple identification methodology. The questionnaire (45 items) catalogued various types of Internet-related behaviors. The following characters were evaluated: Typical Russian, Ideal Person, Internet User (all – female and male), and Myself. Respondents (N = 95, 47/48 males/females, mean age 22.9, s.d. 2.8) indicated...

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate the concept of knowledge management (KM) readiness using intention to be involved in the KM processes concept. These processes comprised of socialisation, externalisation, combination, and internalisation (SECI processes). The research also attempts to measure and validate the concept using data collected from the Sri Lankan telecommunication...

The purpose of present study was to develop an instrument to measure perceptions on good instruction for middle and high school students and to evaluate the scale’s construct and criterion-related validity. The participants were 998 8 and 11 graders. I performed exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis for construct validity and analyzed and structure equation modeling among perspectives on...

The widespread diffusion of Facebook use has resulted in a host of psychological studies that measure online self-disclosure and other variables related to online behaviour, including the benefits and risks associated with Fb use and issues of trust and control over information. Recently, a study group headed by Krasnova proposed a comprehensive 54-item instrument to measure 10 different dimens...

In this study, we developed a conceptual model for electronic business (e-business or EB) adoption incorporating six adoption facilitators and inhibitors, based on the technology-organization-environment framework. Survey data from 3,100 businesses and 7,500 consumers in eight European countries were used to test the model. We conducted confirmatory factor analysis to assess the reliability and...

Knowledge management in the digital economy is playing a critical role in the strategic direction of any organization. Factors that determine the key characteristics of any knowledge management systems are critical for understanding the phenomena of knowledge management. For this reason that sharing and managing knowledge involves a series of activities that are related to culture, the findings...

Researchers must make numerous choices when conducting factor analyses, each of which can have significant ramifications on the model results. They must decide on an appropriate sample size to achieve accurate parameter estimates and adequate power, a factor model and estimation method, a method for determining the number of factors and evaluating model fit, and a rotation criterion. Unfortunat...

Title: Assessing Organizational Implementation Context in the Education Sector: Confirmatory Factor Analysis of Measures of Implementation Leadership, Climate, and Citizenship Authors: Aaron Lyon ([email protected]) Clayton Cook ([email protected]) Eric Brown ([email protected]) Jill Locke ([email protected]) Chayna Davis ([email protected]) Mark Ehrhart ([email protected]) Gregory Aarons ([email protected]...