Purpose: Discuss key issues and considerations about correlational research and put forward suggestions for averting potential problems during preparation and application of the design. Background and Discussion: The importance of correlational research has been reported in the literature yet many research texts including nursing books offer little discussion on the design; with several providi...

By two different types of instruments—a questionnaire to determine students' writing apprehension and a test using descriptive texts decide skills—this study investigated the correlation between skills. This used quantitative correlational research, English department served as study's target population. Additionally, researchers employed cluster sampling design, which can choose representative...

Objectives: Previous studies have shown the heuristic qualities of self-determination theory constructs to predict sport persistence. The purpose of this study was to extend these researches by focusing on the conflicting or instrumental relationship between sport and other life contexts (i.e., school and friendship) to enhance the understanding of this phenomenon. Design: A correlational longi...

AIM OF THE STUDY This study aimed at integrating research discussing the role of perceived psychosocial barriers in cervical cancer screening (CCS) uptake. In particular, we analyzed the evidence for the associations between CCS uptake and perceived psychosocial barriers and frequency of psychosocial barriers identified by women. MATERIAL AND METHODS A systematic search of peer-reviewed paper...

Common representation learning (CRL), wherein different descriptions (or views) of the data are embedded in a common subspace, has been receiving a lot of attention recently. Two popular paradigms here are canonical correlation analysis (CCA)-based approaches and autoencoder (AE)-based approaches. CCA-based approaches learn a joint representation by maximizing correlation of the views when proj...