Examines the relationship between two dimensions of organization--centralization and formalization--and two aspects of employee orientation--subordinate loyalty and esprit. Multiple regression analyses revealed that the relationships were somewhat more complicated than originally hypothesized. (Author)

Discusses findings of an evaluation of university Web-based courses that used the Input-Environment-Outcome assessment model to control for student characteristics in order to decrease bias. Results of multiple regression analysis supported the view that students' satisfaction was influenced by the online environment and was not due to student…

Compares differences in educational attainment and income between a group of Black females who became mothers while adolescents and a group who delayed childbearing, at three different points in their lives. Finds that early parenthood decreases educational attainment and income in the early and middle adult years. (FMW)

Explored relationship between religious commitment and adaptation to widowhood among 159 widowed elderly involved in southern Californian support groups. Grief, depression, and intrinsic-extrinsic religiousness were assessed and then analyzed via hierarchical multiple regression procedures. Higher extrinsicness (religion as a means to…

Discusses the nature, power, and limitations of four multivariate techniques: factor analysis, multiple analysis of variance, multiple regression, and multiple discriminant analysis. Shows how decision trees assist in interpreting results. (SK)

Presents the results of multiple regression analysis, test-retest analysis, reliability analysis, exploratory factor analysis, and confirmatory factor analysis of the Computer Attitude Scale in order to assess the instrument's predictive ability, construct validity, and reliability. Findings indicate acceptable characteristics, including stability…

This paper encourages the use of multiple logistic analysis in early intervention research, to assess the degree of association of multiple factors (such as subject or situational characteristics) with a dichotomous outcome (such as benefitting or not benefitting from an intervention) and to estimate the probability of each outcome. (JDD)

Analyzes the factors influencing the satisfaction of a sample of 1,018 urban Blacks with their neighborhood. Finds that residential satisfaction is a function of physical environment and socioeconomic factors, including the type of housing, help from family members, social participation in organizations, and marital status. (FMW)

In response to earlier article (Jordan et al. 1989) showing per capita publication increases, up to a point, with department size and is higher at private institutions than elsewhere, this article demonstrates impact of both private vs. public affiliation as well as department size on per capita publication plunges after controlling for both…

In reply to the above article by Golden and Carstensen, extends earlier research on faculty research productivity. Findings indicate that research performance is enhanced by department size (at a diminishing rate), private organization, grant support, a larger pool of graduate students, and a quality research library. (MLF)

This study used a contrasting word task to evaluate the relationship between specific acoustic features of speech and perceptual judgments of word intelligibility of 16 adults with cerebral palsy-dysarthria. The scaled intelligibility was predicted with 62.6 percent accuracy by acoustic measures related to one consonant contrast and three vowel…

A study of 146 university students attempted to identify a combination of learning modalities that might be correlated with foreign language anxiety. A setwise multiple regression analysis revealed that, of 20 learning-modality variables, only responsibility and peer-orientation appeared to be related to foreign-language anxiety. (Author/VWL)

Multiple-regression analysis of data from Canada's General Social Survey indicated that home-based women spent significantly more time in household work than did their employed nonhome-based counterparts. Home-based men spent less than their counterparts. Results provide some support for the view that home-based work may provide a means for women…

Multiple regression methods were used to examine continuous variation in component reading subskills and their underlying cognitive skills within a group of 9 to 15-year-old children. Results are discussed within a connectionist framework that views the decoding deficit in dyslexia as stemming from poorly specified phonological representations.…