We examined the effectiveness of situation awareness probe questions in predicting sector performance and behavior in a human-in-the-loop simulation air traffic management (ATM) simulation with low (50%) and high (75%) traffic densities. Probes were presented online during the performance of the air traffic management task, and the accuracy and response latencies were measured. Hierarchical lin...

The relationship between Internet usage and the Big Five as well as three narrow personality traits was examined using 117 undergraduates as study participants. Results indicated that total Internet usage was negatively related to three of the Big Five traits – Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, and Extraversion as well as two narrow traits – Optimism and Work Drive, and positively related to To...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine mentoring relationships involving minority graduate students in the USA. Design/methodology/approach – The authors take a multifaceted approach to providing strategies to improve the opportunities of minority students to acquire mentors by directing attention to institutional practices, faculty development, and the behaviors of students themselv...

This study examined changes in members’ satisfaction with group processes as they worked together over time to complete a series of seven group tasks. Members of 10 groups (N 58) communicated with each other using a computer-based collaborative technology over a 10-week period. Satisfaction with group processes was partitioned into individual and group levels with Hierarchical Linear Modeling, ...

Using Institutional theory, we show that the relationship between an information service firm’s innovation activities and firm performance is moderated by cultural and regulatory distances. Because this involves two different units of analysis, a hierarchical regression scheme was used employing 22 nations and 442 firms. We found that the relationship between R&D and sales is stronger for firms...

This article examines whether shared religious beliefs and religious social relationships (Durkheim) and belief in a personal, moral God (Stark) negatively affect attitudes toward the acceptability of white-collar crime. In addition, using a large cross-national sample and estimating multilevel models, we test whether effects are conditional on modernization and religious contexts characterized...

Dougal Hutchison at the National Foundation for Educational Research has received ESRC funding for a 10month project which started in January, aimed at developing bootstrapping techniques for correcting for measurement error in dependent and explanatory variables in multilevel models. Jo Morrison and Rachel Felgate of the NFER will be working with him on the project. It is aimed to implement de...

This study uses the person-environment fit approach to assess the dissatisfaction one has towards co-workers who fail to carry their own weight, in groups of varying sizes. It is posited in these studies that in large groups where situations are more likely to be inequitable, highly sensitive people are more intolerant of inequity and thus more dissatisfied with their co-workers, compared with ...

In this paper, we deene the Multilevel Rela-tional (MLR) data model for multilevel relations with element-level labeling. This model builds upon prior work of numerous authors in this area, and integrates ideas from a number of sources. A new data-based semantics is given to the MLR data model which combines ideas from SeaView, belief-based semantics and LDV model, and has the advantages of bot...