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The conjoint approach to measurement and analysis is demonstrated in this article through a test of an evaluation utilizationprocess-model that includes two endogenous variables (predicted participation and predicted instrumental utilization). Conjoint measurement involves having respondents rate attribute profiles that are analogous to concepts based on cells in a factorial analysis of variance. Such multidimensional ratings result in ecologically valid measurements because respondents examine and react to wholes, rather than to single unidimensional items as in traditional survey research. Statistically, conjoint analysis is a "decompositional" technique in which respondents' overall reactions to profiles (hypothetical situations) are decomposed to determine how much importance is given to attributes (variables used in the profiles) and to levels of the attributes.

"The Reviewer's Guide for Mixed Methods Research Analysis is designed for evaluators of research manuscripts and proposals in the social and behavioral sciences, and beyond. Its thirty-three uniquely structured chapters cover both traditional and emerging mixed methods data analysis, which neither junior nor veteran reviewers can be expected to know in detail. The book updates readers on each technique's key principles, appropriate usage, underlying assumptions, and limitations. It thereby assists reviewers in offering constructive commentary on works they evaluate, and also serves as an indispensable author's reference for preparing sound research manuscripts and proposals"--

It is no exaggeration to say that virtually all quantitative research in the social sciences is done with correlation and regression analysis (CRA) and their siblings and offspring. In this book, the editors have ordered the growing research literature on the use of CRA according to its natural steps into four volumes

"The highly-anticipated second edition of the Foundations of Mixed Methods Research:Integrating Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches in the Social and Behavioral Sciences gives students a comprehensive overview of mixed methods from philosophical roots and traditions through designing, conducting, and disseminating a study. Authors Abbas Tashakkori, Burke Johnson, and Charles Teddlie have thoroughly updated the text to reflect the many advances over the last decade in mixed methods. New example studies throughout and a new appendix highlight the latest research on mixed methods and current best practices. New sections on evaluating quality in mixed methods studies and writing up research results round out the process of mixed methods research. The authors have added features like content summaries and objectives at the beginning of each chapter and chapter summaries and previews at the end of each chapter aid readers in their mixed methods journey"--

Offering a variety of innovative methods and tools, The Oxford Handbook of Multimethod and Mixed Methods Research Inquiry provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date presentation on multi- and mixed-methods research available. Written in clear and concise language by leading scholars in the field, it enhances and disrupts traditional ways of asking and addressing complex research questions. Topics include an overview of theory, paradigms, and scientific inquiry; a guide to conducting a multi- and mixed-methods research study from start to finish; current uses of multi- and mixed-methods res

Public service motivation (PSM) are motivational factors that are unique in professions that serve the public. This study examined PSM's relationship to self-reported job satisfaction and job performance in a unique sample of emergency medical services professionals, in which little research on the PSM construct has been undertaken. The PSM factors that emerged in this study did not mirror the traditional four-factor structure. The public interest and self-sacrifice factors formed a single public service factor, and a small number of compassion factors loaded on a second factor, with the policy-making factor being fully replicated. All three factors were significantly related to job satisfaction, and none were related to job performance, while controlling for the influence of demographic and contextual factors. All of these contextual factors were significantly related to job performance, except for the length of time in the emergency medical services (EMS) field, but not job satisfaction.

1.Promoting Peace through Mindfulness -- 2.Mindfulness and Peace -- 3.Empathic Assessment Heuristic -- 4.Promoting a Peaceful Generation through Parenting, Education, and Civic Engagement -- 5.Raising a Peaceful Generation -- 6.Finding Light In the Barrios of Caracas: A Peace-Promotion Initiative with Marginalized Youth -- 7.Cultural Scars and Lost Innocence. The Psychology of the African Child: Debasement and Renewal -- 8.Peace Education -- 9.Developmental Psychology and Peace -- 10.Diversity and Peace -- 11.Social Networks that Promote Peace -- 12.Making Humanitarian Organizations/Programs Culturally Relevant for Minority Population within the Middle East -- 13.Violence within Corrections: The Intersection of Feminist Criminology, Peace, Psychology and Human Rights -- 14.Diversity and Human Rights -- 15.Traditional Methods of Promoting Peace in Southwest and Southeast, Nigeria -- 16.Promoting Peace through Religious Strategies -- 17.Truth, Forgiving, and Reconciling: Pathways to Peace and the Context of Refugees -- 18.Forgiveness and Peace -- 19.Social Justice and Peace -- 20.Creating and Sustaining Peace through Storytelling -- 21.Turning Problems into Potential: Positive Social Movement Dynamics -- 22.Environmental Psychology and Peace -- 23.Peace Research by Peaceful Means