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AUTHOR
Maria Jesús Bravo
An adaptation of the Critical Thinking Disposition Scale in Spanish youth
Abstract Background Enhancing students’ critical thinking (CT) is an essential goal of higher education. Although there are many instruments to assess its cognitive dimension, this is not so in the case of dispositional thinking. Our aim is to examine the psychometric properties of the Spanish version of the Critical Thinking Disposition Scale (CTDS; Sosu, 2013). Method Data come from 1064 students in their final years at high school and university in Spain. We report validity evidence based on its internal structure by confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and an estimation of reliability and measurement invariance by gender. Additionally, nomological validity study with a multiple-indicator …
Social antecedents of the role stress and career-enhancing strategies of newcomers to organizations: A longitudinal study
Newcomers experience uncertainty and stress following entry into an organization. Two features of socialization are important for reducing their stress: socialization tactics and relations with superiors and co-workers. The present study tests a structural equation model, including, first, the effects over time of initial institutional socialization tactics and, second, the association between social relations at the workplace on newcomers’ role stress and career-enhancing strategies, two years later, among a large (N=661) international sample of job and organization stayers. Using LISREL 8.3 the results indicate a good fit between the model and data on several fit indices. Institutional so…
Un Modelo Causal Sobre los Antecedentes y consecuentes del estrés de Rol en Profesionales de la Salud
En el presente trabajo se somete a contrastación empírica un modelo causal sobre los antecedentes y las consecuencias del estrés de rol en profesionales sanitarios. La muestra utilizada es de 178 profesionales sanitarios (Médicos y personal de enfermería) que desempeñan su rol en hospitales, clínicas y Centros de Atención Primaria. Para examinar el modelo se ha utilizado el paquete estadístico LISRELL VII. Los resultados obtenidos muestran que la estandarización de objetivos tiene un efecto directo y negativo sobre el conflicto de rol y un efecto directo y positivo sobre la claridad de rol y la satisfacción laboral; el conflicto de rol no tiene ningún efecto directo sobre la satisfacción la…