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Senkbeil, Martin – Education and Information Technologies, 2022
This study examined the incremental validity of different information and communication technologies (ICT)-related person characteristics over and above intelligence and and prior achievement when predicting ICT literacy across a period of three years. Relative weights analyses were performed to determine the relative contribution of each…
Descriptors: Technological Literacy, Information Technology, Validity, Individual Characteristics
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Specht, Jule; Egloff, Boris; Schmukle, Stefan C. – Developmental Psychology, 2013
Perceived control is an important variable for various demands involved in successful aging. However, perceived control is not set in stone but rather changes throughout the life course. The aim of this study was to identify cross-sectional age differences and longitudinal mean-level changes as well as rank-order changes in perceived control with…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Structural Equation Models, Gender Differences, Aging (Individuals)
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Obschonka, Martin; Silbereisen, Rainer K.; Schmitt-Rodermund, Eva – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2010
What predicts adults' entrepreneurial intentions? Utilizing a cross-sectional sample of 496 German scientists, we investigated a path model for the effects of entrepreneurial personality (Big Five profile), control beliefs, and recalled early entrepreneurial competence in adolescence (early inventions, leadership, commercial activities) on two…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Intellectual Property, Personality, Entrepreneurship
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Wiesner, Margit; Juang, Linda – Journal of Adolescence, 2004
In this cross-sectional study, data from 202 German adolescent girls (ages 13-17 years) and their parents were utilized to test whether the relationship between parents' stressful life events and their daughter's substance use was mediated by higher levels of parents' depressive symptoms, lower quality of the relationship between the parents, and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Females, Substance Abuse, Parent Child Relationship