Determinants of exhaustion of informal caregivers in homecare. Structural equation analysis of data of a multicenter study

ABSTRACTThis paper argues that individual small firms just like large firms, place differing emphasis on strategy-making and may employ different modes of strategy-making. It offers a typology of the different modes of strategy-making that seem most likely to exist in small firms, and hypothesises how this typology relates to performance. It then describes the results of an empirical study of the strategy-making processes of small firms. The structural equation analysis of the data from 477 small firms with less than 100 employees indicates among other results that the simplistic, adaptive, intrapreneurial and participative modes of strategy-making exist in these small firms. Of these modes, the simplistic mode exhibits the strongest relationship with firm performance.

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Un modelo explicativo de la adaptación subacuática

Anales de Psicología ◽

10.6018/analesps.32.2.205911 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 32 (2) ◽

pp. 320 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Joaquín Colodro ◽

Enrique J. Garcés-de-los-Fayos ◽

Juan J. López-García ◽

Lucía Colodro-Conde

Keyword(s):

Structural Equation ◽

Emotional Reactivity ◽

Emotional Adjustment ◽

Extreme Environment ◽

Psychological Variables ◽

Stressful Environment ◽

Structural Equation Analysis ◽

Equation Analysis ◽

And Performance ◽

Relationship Of

The underwater environment is an extreme environment that requires a process of human adaptation with specific psychophysiological demands to ensure survival and productive activity. From the standpoint of existing models of intelligence, personality and performance, in this explanatory study we have analyzed the contribution of individual differences in explaining the adaptation of military personnel in a stressful environment. Structural equation analysis was employed to verify a model representing the direct effects of psychological variables on individual adaptation to an adverse environment, and we have been able to confirm, during basic military diving courses, the structural relationships among these variables and their ability to predict a third of the variance of a criterion that has been studied very little to date. In this way, we have confirmed in a sample of professionals (<em>N</em> = 575) the direct relationship of emotional adjustment, conscientiousness and general mental ability with underwater adaptation, as well as the inverse relationship of emotional reactivity. These constructs are the psychological basis for working under water, contributing to an improved adaptation to this environment and promoting risk prevention and safety in diving activities.

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The importance of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex for associative memory in older adults: A latent structural equation analysis

NeuroImage ◽

10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.116475 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 209 ◽

pp. 116475

Author(s):

Yvonne Brehmer ◽

Jonna Nilsson ◽

Rasmus Berggren ◽

Florian Schmiedek ◽

Martin Lövdén

Keyword(s):

Older Adults ◽

Prefrontal Cortex ◽

Associative Memory ◽

Structural Equation ◽

Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex ◽

Structural Equation Analysis ◽

Equation Analysis

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