Table 6.
Validity Assessment for Relations with Other Variables: Correlation of ACT Concepts with Instrumental Research Utilization (IRU) and Increasing Mean Values of the ACT Concepts by Increasing Levels of IRU
| ACT Concept | Bivariate correlation with IRU2 |
Mean value (and relative % change1) of ACT concepts by level of instrumental research utilization | P-value for mean diff3 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 n = 5 |
2 n = 11 |
3 n = 59 |
4 n = 263 |
5 n = 332 |
Total† | |||
| Leadership | 0.111** | 4.33 (11.98) |
3.70 (-4.47) |
3.68 (-4.95) |
3.80 (-1.79) |
3.96 (2.26) |
3.87 | 0.005 |
| Culture | 0.154** | 3.90 (1.74) |
3.58 (-6.72) |
3.59 (-6.37) |
3.80 (-0.86) |
3.91 (1.99) |
3.83 | 0.000 |
| Evaluation | 0.119** | 3.23 (-6.11) |
3.02 (-12.45) |
3.30 (-4.23) |
3.43 (-0.35) |
3.50 (1.55) |
3.44 | 0.030 |
| Social Capital | 0.174** | 3.97 (-1.16) |
3.79 (-5.61) |
3.82 (-4.76) |
3.96 (-1.34) |
4.10 (2.13) |
4.01 | 0.000 |
| Informal Interactions | 0.167** | 3.10 (-23.57) |
3.82 (-5.86) |
3.40 (-16.09) |
3.95 (-2.73) |
4.28 (5.60) |
4.06 | 0.001 |
| Formal Interactions | 0.124** | 0.50 (-62.09) |
0.91 (-31.08) |
1.24 (-6.20) |
1.28 (-2.61) |
1.38 (4.98) |
1.32 | 0.015 |
| Structural/Electronic Resources4 |
0.141** | 1.70 (-36.64) |
2.27 (-15.29) |
1.97 (-26.40) |
2.67 (-0.58) |
2.85 (6.40) |
2.68 | 0.002 |
| Organizational Slack - Staff |
0.061 | 2.20 (-2.89) |
2.00 (-11.72) |
2.15 (-5.24) |
2.22 (-1.87) |
2.33 (2.86) |
2.27 | 0.610 |
| Organizational Slack - Space5 |
0.067 | 2.93 (-6.49) |
2.91 (-7.27) |
2.99 (-4.55) |
3.11 (-0.81) |
3.19 (1.83) |
3.14 | 0.562 |
| Organizational Slack - Time | 0.199** | 2.95 (-4.16) |
2.86 (-6.96) |
2.69 (-12.45) |
2.97 (-3.46) |
3.24 (5.23) |
3.08 | 0.000 |
†Total = overall mean of the row concept
1 = % of difference with respect to the total sample average
2 = Pearson's correlation coefficients
3 = P-value for one-way ANOVA using 5 IRU values
4 = Score derived based on 7 items (excluding the 4 items representing electronic recourses that showed misfit in Model 1)
5 = Score derived based on 2 items (excluding the 1 item on space for resident care that showed misfit in Model 1)
* = Significance at 0.05 level
** = Significance at 0.01 level.