Copy Abstract: The present study demonstrates a novel way of exploring the relationship between personality and social outcomes by examining an understudied intermediate step: situational construal. Construal is assessed in terms of the degree to which one’s description of a situation agrees with others’ descriptions of the same situation (normativity) and the degree to which the description is...

From the perspectives of regulation and convergence, several debates on the industrial definition of smart TV service in Korean broadcasting and communications market have been in progress. The most heated controversy mainly depends on whether smart TV is controlled under the broadcasting regulations or under the communications regulations. This Korean specific problem is summarized in regulati...

New computer-mediated channels of communication are action oriented and have the ability to deliver information and dialogue—moderated and unmoderated—which can facilitate the bringing together society’s stakeholders, opinion leaders and change agents, who have the ability to influence social action. However, existing online studies have been limited in explaining Internet users’ willingness to...

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...

—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...