This cross-sectional study investigated the mediatory role of experiential avoidance in the relationship between perceived stress and alexithymia with mental health. We enrolled 440 students (age 18-30 years) at Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences through stratified random sampling method. The study tools were demographic checklist, GHQ-28, Toronto Alexithymia Scale-20 and Perceived Stres...

Several statistical methods are nowadays available for the analysis of gene expression data recorded through microarray technology. In this article, we take a closer look at several Gaussian mixture models which have recently been proposed to model gene expression data. It can be shown that these are special cases of a more general model, called the mixture of structural equation models (mixtur...

Structural equation modelling (SEM) is a powerful tool to explore and contrast hypotheses on causal relationships among variables using observational data. It constitutes an alternative to experimental approaches that is especially useful in the conservation of small populations where the implementation of treatments may have a negative effect on population viability. We are presently applying ...

Trond Hammervoll Department of Business Administration and Social Sciences, Harstad University College, Norway [email protected] This article is an empirical attempt to examine the relationship between types of governance and value creation in supply chain relationships. It does this by examining the incentive systems associated with various forms of governance and their effects on inform...

Teknologi Informasi (TI) merupakan penggerak bisnis baik pada tataran operasional maupun strategis di organisasi untuk pencapaian efektivitas dan efisiensi aspek-aspek manajerial. Namun yang jadi persoalan adalah bagaimana merencanakan investasi TI agar nilai manfaatnya terdefinisikan secara tegas. Dalam hal ini pemodelan dalam sebuah perusahaan suatu cara dapat menjawab permasalahan tersebut. ...

Better understanding of safety culture and causal relationships between its key elements is a must for construction organizations to strategically allocate their safety resources. This paper reports the use of structural equation modelling (SEM) technique to test causal relationships between key elements of construction safety culture. These elements (five enablers and goals) were identified th...

Customer perception is a very important factor concerning green marketing management and is viewed as a motivational construct influencing subsequent consumer behaviour. This research uses four constructs i.e. perceived quality, perceived value, perceived risk and customer loyalty in the context of environmentally-friendly electronic products in Thailand. It employs an empirical study using the...

BACKGROUND Structural equation modelling (SEM) has been increasingly used in medical statistics for solving a system of related regression equations. However, a great obstacle for its wider use has been its difficulty in handling categorical variables within the framework of generalised linear models. METHODS A large data set with a known structure among two related outcomes and three indepen...

As a result of studies examining factors involved in the learning process, various structural models have been developed to explain the direct and indirect effects that occur between the variables in these models. The objective was to evaluate a structural model of cognitive and motivational variables predicting academic achievement, including general intelligence, academic self-concept, goal o...

Structural equation models (SEM) are frequently used in Information Systems (IS) to analyze and test theoretical propositions. As IS researchers frequently reuse measurement instruments and adapt or extend theories, it is not uncommon for a researcher to re-estimate regression relationships in their SEM that have been examined in previous studies. We advocate the use of Bayesian estimation of s...