Factors contributing to academic achievement: a Bayesian structure equation modelling study

In Iran, high school graduates enter university after taking a very difficult entrance exam called the Konkoor. Therefore, only the top-performing students are admitted by universities to continue their bachelor's education in statistics. Surprisingly, statistically, most of such students fall into the following categories: (1) do not succeed in their education despite their excellent performance on the Konkoor and in high school; (2) graduate with a grade point average (GPA) that is considerably lower than their high school GPA; (3) continue their master's education in majors other than statistics and (4) try to find jobs unrelated to statistics. This article employs the well-known and powerful statistical technique, the Bayesian structural equation modelling (SEM), to study the academic success of recent graduates who have studied statistics at Shahid Beheshti University in Iran. This research: (i) considered academic success as a latent variable, which was measured by GPA and other academic success (see below) of students in the target population; (ii) employed the Bayesian SEM, which works properly for small sample sizes and ordinal variables; (iii), which is taken from the literature, developed five main factors that affected academic success and (iv) considered several standard psychological tests and measured characteristics such as ‘self-esteem’ and ‘anxiety’. We then study the impact of such factors on the academic success of the target population. Six factors that positively impact student academic success were identified in the following order of relative impact (from greatest to least): ‘Teaching–Evaluation’, ‘Learner’, ‘Environment’, ‘Family’, ‘Curriculum’ and ‘Teaching Knowledge’. Particularly, influential variables within each factor have also been noted.     

背包客身份认同对主观幸福感的影响

已有研究表明,在“日常生活世界”形成的群体身份认同能提升人们的主观幸福感。作为对当前社会快速变化的一种回应,背包旅行能提供展露自我的“自由空间”,建构独特的背包客身份认同。为探明背包客在“旅游世界”建构的身份认同是否显著提升其主观幸福感这一问题,基于社会认同理论和自我决定理论,将自尊作为中介变量,检验了背包客身份认同与主观幸福感之间的关系。通过问卷调查（n=400）收集数据,运用结构方程模型偏最小二乘法（PLS-SEM）进行统计分析。发现：（1）背包客身份认同的自我归类维度、群体自我价值维度对主观幸福感有显著正向影响;（2）群体自我评价维度、群体自我价值维度对自尊具有显著正向影响;（3）自尊对主观幸福感也有显著正向影响,且自尊在群体自我价值影响主观幸福感的过程中起部分中介作用。所得结果丰富了旅游者幸福感与背包客身份认同的理论研究。     

总体报酬与员工创新行为的关系研究:组织自尊和工作投入的作用

本研究基于社会信息加工理论,构建了一个以组织自尊为中介变量、工作投入为调节变量的总体报酬影响员工创新行为的两阶段调节中介模型,并采用时间滞后法获得来自多个行业与地区的140家企业470位非研发人员及其领导的多时点配对调查数据对模型进行检验,旨在揭示中国情境下总体报酬激发员工创新行为的作用机制和边界条件。实证研究发现,总体报酬与员工的创新行为、组织自尊显著正相关,组织自尊完全中介了总体报酬与创新行为的关系,工作投入正向调节了总体报酬和组织自尊的关系、以及组织自尊和员工创新行为的关系,并进一步正向调节了总体报酬通过组织自尊对创新行为的间接影响。