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(Taylor & Francis, 2009)Assessing the correctness of a structural equation model is essential to avoid drawing incorrect conclusions from empirical research. In the past, the chi-square test was recommended for assessing the correctness of the ...
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(Taylor & Francis, 2015)In this second decade of the twenty-first century, interculturalism is emerging as a new policy paradigm to deal with diversity dynamics. It is basically viewed as a set of policies sharing one basic idea: that the interaction ...
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(Elsevier, 2013)Consensual stereotypes of some groups are relatively accurate, whereas others are not. Previous work suggesting that national character stereotypes are inaccurate has been criticized on several grounds. In this article we ...
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(Wiley, 2013)Whether language shapes cognition has long been a controversial issue. The present research adopts a functional approach to examining the effects of language use on personality perception and dialectical thinking. We propose ...
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(Springer, 2011)The major body of the literature about left–right orientation finds that values and attitudes determine an individual’s position in the left–right dimension. Regarding values, it is assumed that these are stable over (a ...
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(Taylor & Francis, 2013)Saris, Satorra, and Coenders (2004) proposed a new approach to estimate the quality of survey questions, combining the advantages of 2 existing approaches: the multitrait–multimethod (MTMM) and the split-ballot (SB) ones. ...
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(Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales, 2009)Amorim Neto y Cox sentaron las bases de los determinantes del número efectivo de partidos electorales. Sin embargo, a partir de una nueva base de datos más fiable y con el doble de países demostraré que a pesar de que los ...
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(Societat Catalana de Comunicació, 2020)Following the theories of media system dependency (MSD), this paper analyses the media audiences in Catalonia and their evolution in the context of the independence debate. Serial data from the 1980s to 2014 on mainstream ...
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(Springer, 2020)We explore the effects of parental divorce and parental temporary separation on well-being of children at a specific stage of their development according to the parental relationship quality. Despite the importance of this ...
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(Springer, 2020)To involve Millennials in survey participation, and obtain high-quality answers from them, survey designers may require new tools that better catch Millennials’ interest and attention. One key new tool that could improve ...
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(Springer, 2020)Social media has become an alternative communication mechanism for the public to reach out to emergency services during time-sensitive events. However, the information overload of social media experienced by these services, ...
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(Elsevier, 2020)Despite the consensus that entrepreneurship runs in the family, we lack evidence regarding the total importance of family and community background, as well as the relative importance of different background influences that ...
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(Taylor & Francis, 2020)The role of immigrant advocacy bodies in collaborative policy–making in cities is so far insufficiently researched. This article investigates the ties between relevant urban actors and immigrant advocacy bodies in cities ...
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(Nordic Association of Occupational Safety and Health (NOROSH), 2020)Despite the growing use of the term precarious employment, there is no consensus on a theoretical framework or definition. This hampers the study of the subject, especially in public and occupational health. We propose a ...
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(Leibniz-Institute for Psychology Information (ZPID), 2020)We investigated political polarization among the 28284 candidates in the Finnish municipal election who ran for municipal council in 2012, 2017, or both, and had responded to a Voting Advice Application. Our results revealed ...
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(Universidad de La Sabana, 2020)Este artículo tiene por objetivo analizar cómo cooperan el periodismo digital y la cultura del videojuego moderno en dos formas de simulación lúdica e inmersión periodística: los docuwebs y los newsgames. Para ello, se ha ...
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(European Survey Research Association, 2013)Measurement equivalence is a pre-requisite to be able to make comparisons across groups. In this paper we are interested in testing measurement equivalence across respondents answering surveys done using different modes ...
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(European Survey Research Association, 2013)In order to compare data-quality of different data-collection modes, multitrait-multimethod (MTMM) experiments have been implemented in a mixed-mode experiment parallel to the European Social Survey (ESS) fourth round ...
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(European Survey Research Association, 2010)Although Agree/Disagree (A/D) rating scales are hugely popular in the social sciences, a large body of research conducted during more than five decades has documented the bias that results from acquiescence in responses ...
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(European Survey Research Association, 2010)So far, most surveys used face-to-face or telephone questionnaires in order to collect data. But the costs of achieving a survey using these traditional modes increase. At the same time, the response rates decrease, making ...
